I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

I studied scriptural interpretation, which is more about how people get meaning out of texts, looking at stuff in the Old Testament - Muslims, Christians, Jews, different interpretations of the same texts.

What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.

Years ago, in order to stay sane, I had to really make an effort not to think about how people view us. There's just so much noise, positive and negative, and not much good comes out of thinking about it.

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

If I was a cabinetmaker or a commercial fisherman, it would be the same question - how to connect to my world. The job we do affords us the opportunity to have people listen to what we say. But a lot of people have a similar situation: They're trying to find a way to do some good.