The stereotypes we pretend that we reject are ingrained in our DNA.

We are manipulated by fear and the fear of others, and how we're often manipulated into doing things and voting in ways that are against our own best interest. Look at healthcare. People will tell you that healthcare is socialism and communism, and they're doing this while their wife needs an operation and their kid needs braces.

You'd be surprised how many writers, or how many actors, if they miss a paycheck or two, they've got nothing. As a writer or an actor you can have four or five jobs in one year and then have none for two years.

Independent films are very hard to get made, but I'm lucky enough to get them made, so I'm going to keep doing it. I like my independence. I like being able to tell a story the way I want to tell a story. I don't like developing it with a team. I like coming to a story and deciding whether I want to do it or not.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'