We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated.

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms.

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.