I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

I'm a big believer of "when there is a will there is a way" but from the studio's perspective I think it just seems like a bigger leap than you can get a sort of bureaucratic move to make.

Every time I trust my instincts I land on my feet and every time I don't, I go, "Why didn't I trust my instinct?"

Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie.

I think you don't break new ground in anything in life if you are willing to just follow the rules.

I am always striving to be the best that I can be as a filmmaker.

I am a loyalist and I really absolutely love film.

I love the opportunity to shoot digital because you can shoot so many takes, it's really malleable, it's a ton of fun, and it is easy.

The opportunity to shoot and get the depth out of the film - that I don't think you can get out of digital - is a huge deal for me.

The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...

With the spirit of endurance, we shall strive in any situation.

Any Federal official, who engages in employment discrimination, lacks the moral integrity to evenhandedly enforce our Nation’s laws or manage Federal programs.

Fight Is Excuse Love Not Refuse

I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home.

I want to be violated by insight.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom!

Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.

Love me, and tell me so sometimes.

It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.

Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle