It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.

If I leave my phone in the car and go to dinner or something for a few hours, I'm very proud of myself.

If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.

I feel like everything I make is personal to me.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

As a parent, your perspective of childhood is through the eyes of this person that you care so much about and you just want the world to be great for them. You want their life to be easy and happy.

I like naps. I don't drink coffee.