When you do improv, you're everything. You're a performer, writer, and director, because you're moving the scene in the direction you want it to go, you're making it up as you go, and you're acting it.

I decided to not just be about protesting or speaking out against certain things, but actually trying to get things done. That has been tremendously fulfilling for me.

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities.

Usually, I have in mind what I want to do. I shoot pretty economically, so I'm not shooting tons of stuff that I could change, all that much. I'll cut something or add a little something back, but not too much. This is maybe the producer part of me, but I'm always worried about the budget, so I shoot what I know I need to shoot for the film.

We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children.

For me, if I had all the money in the world, and I could finance my own films, I would do whatever.

I hate those movies where hundreds of people get blown up and there are jokes afterward. They poison the soul.