We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.

I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it.

My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies. That, to me, is a lie. Everything's not okay.

I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.