I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

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

My department is to get actors to do stuff.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

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

I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.