If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.

I try to get to know the actors as much as I can. I feel like I'm friends with them for starters and for a week or two, we rehearse when they're getting the costumes together.

A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.