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.

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.

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

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

I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant.

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