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

Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.

I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections.

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."

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.

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.

That's the funny thing about cinema, it is an intellectual medium, but it's also sort of anti-intellectual.