As a child, I remember being in the pool at this pool party and having to get out of the pool to watch Nixon resign. My first idea of a president was of a guy who was a crook.

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.

I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that... it was complete chaos of life, and then this horrific non-response from the powers that be. There was a lot of misery and sadness tied up in that.

I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.

Waking up and having a project to work on is one of life's great pleasures.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.