Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business, only to become a jerk.

The reflexive allergy to L.A. that a lot of New Yorkers have, I feel like it's kind of nonsense.

And so, however many people watch this thing, that's how many different opinions there will be about it. But I don't feel like it has an agenda in terms of its ideology. It just presents a story like a mirror. It's a mirror more than it is than a distorted mirror.

A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout - rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story - but the chord has to be resolved.

I love watching all sorts of different types of movies, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily movies I want to be making. I'm not sitting around saying, "Man, I'd really love to direct a western." That's just not something I'm probably going to do. But, I'm just looking to work on things that both feel professionally exciting and personally relevant.