I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.

Don't sell your story, just tell your story.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

George Lucas is the reason that we got to make this movie, you know, he was the man that created this whole galaxy, and I am incredibly grateful to him. He's an artist and he's a grown-up. And I take him at his word, and it doesn't mean I agree with everything he says, but I respect, you know, his right to his opinion.

I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.