I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

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

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

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.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.