I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.

I don't really distinguish between a fictional hero and a real life hero as a basis for any comparison. To me, a hero is a hero. I like making pictures about people who have a personal mission in life or at least in the life of a story who start out with certain low expectations and then over achieve our highest expectations for them. That's the kind of character arc I love dabbling in as a director, as a filmmaker.

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

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

Twenty years from now, there will still be a square screen, maybe even larger, and people will be sitting in a large, dark space, and they won't know each other unless they bring friends along.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.