Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.

In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.

I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

That's how I am as a director - if somebody does a really good take, I can't help it, I'm not even aware of it. Actors really, really need positive reinforcement.