Ultimately, if you want to make movies, you've got to want to make movies every day, when people are paying you to make movies and when they're not, because you're going to get a lot more no's on this business, no matter what it is, than you are going to get yeses.

I don't go into a movie with preconceived notions of where I want things to go.

When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that.

I think that's one of the biggest goals I had in making a movie, was listening to what other people had to say.

Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.

There are always advancements that are happening with mining technology and the ability to detect gases or methane within the mine. Those things are moving forward every day.

To strip yourself from a lot of the things around you that make you comfortable is a really challenging thing that most of us don't do or don't get a chance to do.