My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.

Commercials that are geared towards kids. I think they should just, like, wipe them out.

I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape.

Artists have always been the front line; that's part of our responsibility. But a lot of the big actors come out, they get slammed, and then they retreat.

Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

I didn't like the distance between my family and myself that I was experiencing from having to work all the time.