We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we don't.

In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.

If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.

I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.