I love history. It was the only thing I did well at in school. I'm not ashamed to admit that I was not a good student but I was great at history.

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of.

Some movies I make for myself. I just sort of make them for myself. I do that sometimes when the subject matter is very sensitive and very personal and I really can't imagine I'm an audience.

If the world ran the way a crew runs a set, we'd have a better, more progressive world.

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry.