I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

I'm a New Yorker, you know.

What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and had large tonal ambitions. A movie that could be poignant and funny, and suddenly quite violent. To have a character utterly sideswiped, and to learn that life is about balance.

I don't have anything to prove to anybody, which is a lovely place to be.