I think movies do change people's hearts.

But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on?

Life is beautiful because it doesn't last.

I feel like success to me is about feeling like I have done something in storytelling, where I've gotten close to articulating something intangible that I'm feeling, and I think I get closer every time, but I don't know that I've done that yet.

So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.