To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.

If two people are at completely different stages in their spiritual life, that can present a real problem.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

I'm a New Yorker, you know.

Obviously plastics have served very important purposes and been incredibly convenient but as we begin to witness the long-term consequences of the chemical components leaching into our water and our bodies, we're going to be forced to look for alternatives to how we package goods and food.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.