All my movies are achingly personal.

As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John Brown' - not the abolitionist John Brown, but the one that Bob Dylan has covered and sung before. It's about a boy coming home from the Civil War, or maybe World War I even, and about his Mother seeing him all destroyed.

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

I wasn't a predator. I didn't pick on other people all right, but people didn't beat me up.

Particularly as a writer, it is my job to ignore social critics, or the response that social critics might have when it comes to the opinions of my characters, the way they talk, or anything that can happen to them.