I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.

The world needs you. It doesn't need you at a party having read a book about how to appear smart at parties - these books exist, and they're tempting - but resist falling into that trap. The world needs you at the party starting real conversations, saying, 'I don't know,' and being kind.

I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.

I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do.

I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.

You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.