I grew up with my grandfather [Elia Kazan] being famous in a way that's not like Beyoncé, but famous in a relative way. It made me feel weird about the way that we treat people that are famous, and it made me feel weird about fame in general.

I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical.

Most of the things I'm talking about are essential human rights. I don't think it should be political to say that children should be able to have lunch at school when their families can't afford to feed them properly, or to say women should have access to basic health care, or that Muslims deserve equal protection under the law, or police shouldn't be killing black people and getting away with it - it shouldn't be a political thing to say. A lot of people on the right standing behind Christian values should be standing with us, because equality is a basic tenet of Christianity.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.