I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect.
I don't tend to write straight dramas where real life just impinges. But because I don't, when I do, it is very interesting to slap people in the face with just an absolute of life.
Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.
I always believe in just have as much fun as you can so that when you're in the part that you hate, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, that you're close to finished.
Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.
Shakespeare's language does not require a British accent. It requires a facility with language, and that's all.
It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female characters... But all it takes is one Catwoman to set the cause back a decade.
I've been to two festivals in my life, and I've never been to Toronto. I haven't really been making festival movies. This is new territory for me.
Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I'm from the generation that wants to put a GPS in their kids so I always know where they are.
I always tend to think just left of center, to remove myself from the world by one step. It is very freeing, and it's a particular way of coming at stories and looking at them that I find the most beautiful stuff that I know comes from, ultimately.
My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.
I'm a very gentle man, not unlike Gandhi.
For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.
I am a great believer in found families and I'm not a great believer in blood.
Every kid who hated grownups becomes a grownup. Well, except the ones who died.
I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.
I'm a very hard-line, angry atheist. Yet I am fascinated by the concept of devotion.
I was raised by a hardcore feminist.
What I do like is hiking. And that's what filmmaking is. It's a hike. It's challenging and exhausting, and you don't know what the terrain is going to be or necessarily even which direction you're going in... but it sure is beautiful.
Horror movies don't exist unless you go and see them, and people always will.