There's something really appealing about the simplicity of black-and-white images.

Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.

I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that.