When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.

The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.

Time off from the news is always something I welcome.

You can say something that can really help and actor and you can say something that can really get in the way of an actor's performance, kind of cut them off from their instincts and really get into their heads. And every actor's different. Every actor requires something different. Being an actor, for me, was the greatest training to be a writer and director.

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.