I've had to cut my mom out of a movie before - it's ruthless, editing. But it's also so necessary; because once you start taking away, it's like sculpture, you can really start feeling the shape of the whole.

I always say writing is like dreaming, shooting is like living, and editing is like murder, because you take all these gifts that actors give you, and you cut them.

A lawyer actually has to see all sides of a situation. Lawyers actually might be the most understanding human beings.

You can never maintain just pure happiness. In my life, I want full emotion. I want equal parts happiness and sadness.

When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.

It happens sometimes that when someone has a camera, they change; sometimes they change for the better.

I tell the actors that the biggest gift they can give me is to fail. And that the second gift they can give me is to surprise me.