I think spending a lot of time with my mom, who's a talker and a storyteller, and my dad, who has kind of a soft-spoken, understated sense of humor, I think that's how I became what I am, which is sort of an understated storyteller.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

Falling in love is a completely transcendent experience. It's like eating pizza-flavored ice cream

The key to eating healthy is not eating any food that has a TV commercial.

Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams.

I will say what I aspire to is a consistency in making films, to direct something every couple of years.

They really cut to the chase in the urologist's examination room, and I tried to laugh. If this office were a movie, it would have been rated R.