The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.

The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

There's nothing better than having a collaborator that you have a great shorthand with and a great comfort with who's shepherding the project along. I mean, that's the best thing that can happen in cinema where there's many cooks in the kitchen.

It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.

When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.