I can't really explain the feeling of acting. It makes you the most insecure you can possibly be.

I think I do find humor in disorder, and reality is disorder.

A lot of new American directors have had mentors who have given them advice. And some of them have had the way paved for them by huge Hollywood directors who saw a younger version of themselves.

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.

Feminists is something people hate above all. Nothing worse than being a woman in this [movie] business. I really believe that.

I did a film that I shot in 24 hours that was self-financed for $5,000. It was a feature called Looking For Jimmy that I shot with a bunch of friends. I spent eight months editing because we had 24 hours of footage that made no sense and I learned a lot about directing while editing that film.

Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It's visual, it's directing the actors, it's telling a story. And people don't always mention this part of directing, but it's also knowing how to really edit something into something that makes sense.