My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

I'm not really a Sundance baby, but they helped me so much I feel I have to acknowledge it.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

I don't get a sense of American pride. I just get a sense that everyone is here, battling the same thing - that around the world everybody's after the same thing, just some minor piece of happiness each day.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.