I wasn't born an artist. I was really good in science as a kid. I probably shouldn't have been an artist because I'm much more interested in science. But I was raised by artists. I can't really escape it.

I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.

To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.

I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.

I love making movies. I love writing. I love acting. I love it, and I feel really blessed to be able to actually make a living with something I love doing.

I definitely didn't fit in perfectly to the school system. I was raised with such freedom of speech and thinking.

Few years ago, I said something about the Academy being very white male, which is the reality, and I was slashed to pieces by the media.