I learned to choose my battles. Sometimes I let my producer deal with something that I didn't want to deal with.

I find myself going out less and less. When you're 22 and see older people start to do that, it's depressing, but once you hit 30, you think, 'Wow, I've been working all week - it might be really nice to stay in!

Knowing when to say something and when not to say something is important.

An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

I don't love large groups of men. I've always felt like something terrible could happen when there were no women. If there are women around, it feels like there's less of a chance that anyone will get stabbed.