When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

The hair is really a way to push me even farther out of just what people know me for. I don't really know what people know me for.

I wouldn't want to live life in an untroubled garden, blissful and ignorant. I would want to get out into the world, and be a part of something. In a way I was born into the Garden of Eden, or as close as you can get in our world; I was born white, male, and in Palo Alto. I had it pretty kush.

I felt, implicitly, or not so implicitly, that subjects about women and other races were out of my jurisdiction as a creator. That if I moved too far from my own experience, and my own established identity, I would be criticized for taking even more of those wedding pies from others.

I get like six or so hours of sleep a night.

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.

A director on a film really sets the tone of how people go about things, so everybody is happy to be at work and everybody does their best.