[ Age Of Trump] was something that I really wanted to do, and I also really wanted it to feel evergreen, so we made a lot of attempts not to bog it down in the campaign fight, even though we were right in the middle of that. I wanted it to be something that could live on and be a conversation piece long after this inauguration, whoever it was going to be.

I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.

It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring."

We've had these bursts of cool years here or there but that's not change. That's a trend. You only hope that this could be the beginning of true change.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

I know how to make films and now I'm able to make films with the resources and the tools that match my imagination, and what filmmaker doesn't want to do that? I feel very fortunate to have that. I don't take it for granted.