I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

America is a huge country, of course. It's complicated. There's good, and there's not so good, and that's the same wherever you live.

I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.