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.

When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

United States could be a great country. It needs to be a great country. It's our responsibility as citizens to make that happen, every single one of us.

I miss my mother very, very much.

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

We crash into each other just so we can feel something.