I did not, like my children and people today, grow up with television as part of my life.

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.

Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids.

Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.

I look at going to Hollywood as going behind enemy lines. You parachute in, set up the explosion, then fly out before it goes off.

The tough thing about adulthood is it starts before you even know it starts.