Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.