My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

A favorite film of mine is 'Office Space' and I love 'The Hangover.' That is a really good comedy from character in that film, and that is true of 'Office Space' too.

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.

I think unintentionally I gravitate towards concepts and topics that hit home or are something real we can all relate to.

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

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

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.