I still believe the lessons I learned when I was raised in a Roman Catholic household. Like, it's harder for a rich man to get into Heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

Hope for the best is what we do, right from the moment we're born.

Many criminals believe what they say is true; they could pass a lie detector test.

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

I like BuzzFeed, and I understand the pressure that online reporters are under. But I think everyone agrees that, despite all the awesome kitten gifs, they're still obligated to be skeptical of government officials and ask the right questions.

I don't even like DVDs. Honest to God, in my lifetime, I might have rented a dozen DVDs, literally gone into a video store and rented a dozen DVDs in my lifetime, because I don't like to see movies that way. I like to see them on the big screen.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.