There are so many filmmakers who are so talented, and actors and writers who work so hard, and it's really hard to let your work enter the world.

Eventually, if you're the train that's leaving the station, people will race to catch up with you. I think that's one of the things I've figured out. You can't wait for permission to act, you just do; then people are like, "Oh, look at that person just doing over there. Maybe I'll come join them."

Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.

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.

Once you play with these scenes and you're outlining it, again and again, and telling each other the narrative, and telling it to people you know, trying to make sure that the mathematics of the story work, you feel that those are in place, and the actual writing and final draft doesn't take as long.

I think movies do change people's hearts.

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.