I'm not a control freak - I'm a control enthusiast.

I've been a Hillary Clinton supporter for a long time and I know that is not actually a popular position.

Actors wait tables, directors work at video stores.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.

Everything is so fragile. There's so much conflict, so much pain... You keep waiting for the dust to settle and then you realize this is it; the dust is your life going on. If happy comes along - that weird, unbearable delight that's actual happy - I think you have to grab it while you can. You take what you can get, 'cause it's here, and then... gone.

There is nothing more painful in the world than Aly when she makes her big eyes. She makes her big hurt eyes, there's nothing you can do. She just kills you.