I feel comfortable with women. I have two sisters, so I grew up in a female-dominated environment.

Time off from the news is always something I welcome.

A lot of times, we're just sold these movies that are really cynically conceived and marketed, and they just want you there opening weekend, before everybody finds out it's not so good.

One thing I'm most proud of, in my movies, is that I think the performances are super-strong, but that's not all me. I think part of it is casting appropriately.

It's hard to explaining exactly what happened, but I felt in that moment that the divine, however we may choose to define such a thing, surely dwells as much in the concrete and taxi cabs as it does in the rivers, lakes, and mountains. Grace, I realized, is neither time nor place dependent. All we need is the right soundtrack.

The attitude of the director is really important, in terms of setting tone.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.