I've worked with non-professional actors, I've worked with movie stars, I've worked with kids, I've worked with older people, and I've found my job as a director is to cast them well and to understand what they need on set to bring the material to life.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

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

By 1988, I was living in New York myself.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

I think parenting well is not so different than trying to consider how to be successful at any relationship. Like, how do you partner well? How do you collaborate well? How do we have this conversation well? You know, you're always trying to figure out what "well" means, so I think parenting is another version of that.

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.