There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.

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.

In a movie, a book, or a play, a character doesn't live in a vacuum. She is subject to pressures from the world outside of her, just like we are in life. These pressures and circumstances shape character. Who your parents are determines your genetic make up: your skin color, your sex, your height, weight. Where you are raised does affect your worldview either positively or negatively, your accent. Your economic class affects where you go to school, what you eat, where you sleep.

I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

Generally you don't initiate the projects - they're designed and you're inserted. Your material is edited by somebody. You feel a lack of power over your work.

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.