I think there is a general unrest or curiosity about what a human future is going to be like, and whether the way we're living is even sustainable.

When you come out to L.A. to make movies or to do this kind of work, everybody is coming out on their own and you leave your tribe behind. Then, it's a question of, that was your tribe by blood, and now, what is the tribe that you're making by choice or by what you think is important? I think we were having that experience, so somehow the cult world seemed really compelling.

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.

Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

I think one thing for sure that you learn the more films that you make is how important it is to choose your collaborators.

Early rejections are really tough, especially when all of your friends who you went to school with now have legitimate jobs, are getting married, having children, buying real estate, being adults. And you're still trying to figure out how to make a living doing the thing you think you love, but you're not even sure yet because you haven't even done it. It was a long road of risk and treachery.