I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson].

When you're working on a creative thing, everyone has an idea, and they're pushing it. The first time you work with anybody, you have to get comfortable with the way another person pushes hard for what they want.

With Edward Norton you'd never say, "This is the one we're going with whether you like it or not." It has to be agreed upon.

I'm a New Yorker, you know.

I think technology is having a democratising effect on film.

I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just how you do it, like if you're going to raise money for something, that's how you do it.