My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.

It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

Perhaps the itinerant upbringing my brothers and I had has something to do with my continued interest in perspectives different from my own.

As a kid I read Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and a few others. As an adult have admired Leonardo da Vinci's drawings and notebooks.

I take my work seriously, but it's not the only thing that exists in the world.

I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article about him basically saying, 'Well, you know, he's controversial.' It's like, 'No, he's a dangerous idiot who needs the help of a good psychiatrist!'