Audiences can tell when you're being fake and they will eat you alive. But if you're doing something authentic they will connect to it and that can lead to commercial success.

It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place.

Working with the actors, working with production designers, working with the creative people who surround the process is really fun, it's really inspiring and I take great pleasure in working with them. That's what's most fun about directing.

When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.

Sundance is a really special place. They're very protective of movies, especially lower-budget movies.

Something you can do in a comic that you can't do in a film is that you can have thought bubbles.

When you get that opportunity to be honest and open with somebody, for the first time, and share things about yourself that you haven't been able to share before, that you might be scared of or ashamed about, that's really exhilarating, and I think that's something that people will really identify with.