Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, "I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

When I was 19, I picked up an old, tiny, automatic Yashica camera and I just started shooting. We didn't have iPhones back then, we didn't even have cell phones. I loved having a camera in my hand.

I'm very homework-oriented - I'm a little Tracy Flick-ish.

Some of the mini-worlds that filmmakers have created are so ingrained in my love of culture.

Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they're dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it'll make it better.

I think a breakup can be the beginning of a friendship. That's not me trying to make everything OK - it's me saying, "No, we love each other. Let's not pretend we don't."