I feel like my own background in improv and doing documentaries makes me really comfortable with a situation where you're letting things unfold and you don't have to be a jerk, stomping his feet, trying to get his way on everything.

I have a healthy amount of humility.

I love the unexpected and I think that's why documentary is an attractive genre to me because you don't know where it's going to go, so I tend to involve that as much as possible in the production process.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.