Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

When I studied with Nicholas Ray he was always telling us, "If you want to make films, watch a lot of films, but don't just watch films, go take a walk, look at the sky, read a book about meteorology, look at the design of people's shoes. Because all of them are part of filmmaking." So I thought, perfect! That's a good job for me.

I think you can only be nostalgic for something you've lost.

I'm not overly analytical, and I don't set out to make something particularly.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.