Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.

It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.