To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treated strangers. And I vowed I would never make a film that would not reflect properly on my father's name.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.