It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.

Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there.

I'm not even supposed to be here today.

People like to set the bar high. I like to put the bar on the ground and barely step over it. I like to keep the expectations really low.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream.