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

I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.

There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

As a person, I'm anti-violence.

I've always been attracted to ensembles. When I started doing plays in high school and in college, I always loved the community aspect of it. I loved these little families that would develop.

We are so vocal about what we hate.