I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.

I did a couple of plays in junior high school, maybe high school, and then I did a play in college.

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

I'm an atheist. But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God. We celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids. They love it, and when they say, 'Are we Jewish?' or 'Are we Catholic?' I say, 'Well, I'm not, but you can choose when you're 18. But isn't this fun that we do seders and the Advent calendar?'

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.