I think that the idea of family is a very powerful and influential and disjointed thing that will always captivate me.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.

It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.

Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

I think that I get different kinds of joy out of directing a film and acting, and it's sort of necessary to just be doing one and focusing on that. I'm in awe of anyone who tries to be an actor-director, so I couldn't really see that.

Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time.

The ways in which people are damaged are the ways in which they're strong. It's what makes people interesting - what they've overcome and how, and what they haven't and how that's become a good thing. Almost everyone's life is both a gorgeous story and a tragedy. I think being alive is really, really hard, and I'm constantly stunned and amazed by people who make it interesting and beautiful.