I’ve always been mysterious. My mother and father always used to ask me, "What are you thinking, what’s going on?" There are times when I don’t understand myself, you know what I mean?
When I went to shoot the film I was very nervous. I kept telling myself, "This is it. This is what you've wanted, this is the real deal. Now you've gotta do your thing. You've gotta put all of you in this and hopefully they'll like you." And for people to say it's impressive and "You're so natural", I mean, it's the best feeling in the world. I feel like hard work, you know, payed off.
He understood whatever those hidden mechanisms are that convince people to trust you. I kind of watched him and absorbed what I could from him.
I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did.. but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.
Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards.
Even European philosophers have taken notice that most of what we take for knowledge is nothing but bias and prejudice.
I think the hardest thing to teach a student is that what he or she puts down on paper is changeable.
