When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.

I just want it to be better, I just want to be better, but this is very encouraging.

But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.

It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that.

We have to start listening to nature now.

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.