There's no harmony in most people in a way, and I'm attracted to it, and I think it makes for good storytelling.

I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

Part of filmmaking is always a guessing game, and part of it is always a game of trust.

When you have a director who has work you can identify from the past, it gives you some reference point as to what their interpretation of the story might be, and how that might jibe, right or wrong, with how you see it. But with a first-time director, you don't really know where you're at.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!

The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.

I don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.