What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception.

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.

I’m a deeply broken person, and broken institutions fascinate me.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

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

The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.