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

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

I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

I'm not miserable, but I can't not be angry.

I have to say: We were looking at all of Native American actors, who mostly all work under one casting director. And there's so much talent to be cast. There really is. We saw some really good readings. There's more talent to be had there.

I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.

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.