I don't have many hobbies. If I think of hobbies, maybe ping pong. But I don't have a desire to get a ping pong medal.

I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated.

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.

If I'm working on a film, I'll do sit-ups for before I shoot. Like, 100 in the morning or something.

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.

There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.