I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

People go to the cinema to be moved; they wanna laugh, they wanna cry, they wanna feel something deeply, especially if they're not feeling deeply in their own lives.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

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

I wasn't actually very naturally good at economics. My brain doesn't work very well, in terms of mathematics.

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 get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.