The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

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.

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it.

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood.

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

What the world is like from a nine-year-old's point of view? My memory is that nothing is explained to you, you've got to try to figure it out, pick up clues from the people around you, try to figure it out from their reactions.