So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

When I go to the movies, I do like to see things that surprise me, a little bit, in ways that seem truthful to the world that we live in.

So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.

It is true that the movie is perhaps my most politically-charged. The story is thrust into motion by the idea of what do you do when your 13 year old daughter comes home pregnant. And not only is she pregnant, but she wants to keep the baby.

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.

Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.