You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story you're telling.

You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.

All of this high-tech stuff is supposed to set us free and make life easier. To me, it makes it more difficult and demanding.

Directing takes a lot of time.

I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.