Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

It's just not enough time on set. That's my favorite time. I live for that time on set. I feel like that's when I'm stretching and flexing my muscles and learning how to direct better.

I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.

All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.

It feels to me like everyone is going to do their best work when they feel emotionally safe.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

There's so much great TV and I always thought it would be such a fun little sideway to make money and then not have to worry about my films making a lot of money.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more.

Hope was like frogs praying for wings so they didn't bump their asses when they hopped

You weren't born to be a spectator of others while they live life to the fullest. You too were born to make the world a better place, so put your talents into good use.

To the lack of incentive to effort which is the awful shadow under which we live may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

Angels represent God's personal care for each one of us.

Don't worry about things you cannot alter

It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.

When we conceive a new idea we are thinking directly from the creativity of God.

I'm comfortable and confident about the future.

The gift of the Holy Ghost...quicken s all the intellectual faculties.

I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.