The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.

The reason I make movies now has a lot to do with having seen Star Wars when I was seven years old. That's the formative movie-going experience of my life.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

I am a surfer, though quite a poor one.

Having been dumped so many times in my life, I thought I could sympathize with Bellas character.

The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.