I just love actors, and I've always loved actors. I empathize with their job. Everyone thinks it's easy, and it ain't. To be that vulnerable and brave on camera is tough.

It takes me awhile to find something that I'm passionate about. I'm reading a lot and thinking a lot, and torturing myself a lot because I'm feeling really guilty for not writing something today.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

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

I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.

I miss my mother very, very much.

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