I think it's more interesting if you go all the way with the world you have, and really look at it, and push it to an even more extreme extreme.

I made orange juice from concentrate and showed her the trick of squeezing the juice of one real orange into it. It removes the taste of being frozen. She marveled at this, and I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.

It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

I've always been terrified of getting used to something that is actually killing me-a relationship or a job. But in those cases, you can count on a friend to say something. The Internet is different, because all my friends are in the same relationship.

To do someone else's script? I don't think I'd have a reason.

My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing.