I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.

Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.

I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.

There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the best instincts from writing to style to editing, to the visual elements of my career.

Directing is about as visual as I get and I will leave artmaking to the rest of the family.

Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else's reality.

I've always loved my own little office spaces no matter what they were like. It's the Virginia Woolf, room of one's own concept, it's really important.