It doesn't seem as if there's that much of a difference between a big production and a little production, other than you have a smaller space in which to get dressed and you have a shorter waiting time.

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

Compassion takes imagination.

By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person.

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

Of course, the surest way to free yourself from an existential crisis is through comedy.

I think the central metaphor of the movie is this notion of what the advertising industry does. In order to make someone want to buy something, they first have to make them feel bad about who they are in order to sell them that thing which will make them whole again, and happy again.