Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

All of the thinking and planning that you do to get there, and then, in one minute, in one second, it just doesn't matter. It goes out the window. You either got it or you didn't. There is something kind of refreshing about that.

It's very important to distinguish between chemical depression that requires medication and talk therapy.

I was raised with a single mom and we had a very specific, very particular relationship. She worked with me and my job. I was almost three and we traveled everywhere together and she was really in my life in a really profound way. The most significant relationship of my life. It was beautiful and also an incredible, difficult struggle. I know how creative that life is, and how difficult it is to figure it out.

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

You hold all of our futures in your hands. So you better make it good.