I know what it's like to audition, so it's important that everybody who auditions, even if I know right off they're not right for it, has a good experience. So I'll never just have someone do one pass at it and say "Thank you".

It seems like there'd be no Donald Trump without the internet, first of all. He's a tweeter, which is basically just a bullhorn.

The bigger the budget, the more trouble there is.

I feel like a goddamn hippie, I tell you.

I love when a director says, "I don't know."

It's just odd that something as essential in life as sex has been flattened out in mainstream cinema - and in art cinema. Even in art movies, sex always seems to be treated negatively. Why does it always end in disaster?

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.