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.

There's a dangerous bottom-lining, and super-summarizing that happens in a lot of our press and our media, and sort of our politicians' talking points, that's dangerously simple. I don't know a better way to say it. And there's usually a lot more complicated facts going on than what is quoted and quotable.

The best movies are rooted in reality.

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.

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

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.

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