I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone­­, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.

When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do.

I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.

We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.