To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.

I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could be told purely in a Marxist construction.

Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.

I actually feel that all drama has an element of comedy in it. A great deal of that I learned from writers like Chekhov who called his plays his comedy even when they touch on tragedy.

There was an age in which it was clear to me that my parents weren't perfect, but then there was an age at which I had empathy for that. And that was through therapy, probably. You have to rebuild and you also have to grow in your understanding of whatever it is your parents are facing, and that takes a major, profound shift of perspective from being a child.