One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.

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

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in cinema.

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

I think that if you make something that's relatable then people will attach themselves to it. You can express it in a lot of different ways but I feel like as long as you are consistent and fair with the audience they'll engage irrespective of how they self-identify. I think it just gets too complicated to track all those differences between demographics.

There's a bigger universe at hand.