Everyone has a story.

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

I make movies I want to see.

I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you remember from the book, they find the letters and then in the most undramatic way they take them downstairs, they get approval, they sit at a table during the day with their own author, across from each other.

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.