I'm open to whatever people want to call me.

I think it's more, at least at the time, a sense of abstraction. My mind doesn't really work in a way where there's a definitive sense of something. I go one way and then it opens up into a million different ideas, and somehow, when you look at the art, Buddhist art, or particularly Tibetan art, you know, it's a similar thing. All of a sudden there are a million lotus leaves and you're following one to the next and to another, and I related to that, and it felt simple and easy to me. And it made me feel smart.

Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.

I think that we all have within us the potential for almost anything. If we play close attention to our lives, then we can get at it somehow.

In a perfect world, I would love to do one play for every three movies.

I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.

I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.