I think my movie addresses the struggles of communities facing class distinctions, which are timeless. The questions of how we live together and what we do for money are really the stuff of drama.

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

As a father, I wanted to make a movie that my kids can love.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.

The big change that's happened for me in terms of my own life and how outsidership is reflected in my work is that I used to feel extraordinarily isolated in my life as I was trying to figure out who I was and how to have intimate relationships. And so my central characters also were isolated and usually in quite a bit of pain.

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