I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

You can't get work without working.

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.