I'm a very political person, and I make political choices in my movies..

I had been brought up in an elementary school where, my first few grades, I remember being specifically told that my teachers were gay. I was just th….

My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre..

I think you hear a lot of people say 'I support the troops' and all of that, but I really feel deeply that I do..

I'm more Baskin-Robbins style myself..

I think I'm not in this work to not look at life as it is. I'm not in it to say, "I want to wear a mask and escape," you know. I want to know what's ….

Heath [Ledger] would walk up to a horse and could like silence the horse. Just literally he'd be like, 'Shh. Shh.' And then he'd get on the horse. I'….

I've never had sex with boxers on and it's an odd thing to watch actors do. That's not saying I haven't tried... I just don't recommend it!.

I was listening to this Adele song, where she's like, "When we were young..." I was like, "You're 27. Are you kidding me?.

Heath [Ledger] was always somebody who I admired.He was way beyond his years as a human, in a way..

We all develop relationships with each other based on our first relationships, and then how we experience them. But inevitably they are echoes of ear….

At Columbia there's no performing arts department, so I was searching for it everywhere I could, and I took some photography classes and I ended up b….

I like the conscious manipulation that a great director can have. When you're both complicit in the manipulation of an emotion..

I didn't know many classes where I could try and relate the thing that I really loved and wanted to do into an intellectual idea..

I get off on the interaction with people, and I love the chess of a movie and particularly - not only in preproduction or in production or postproduc….

Being the youngest, I constantly have that insecurity of being the youngest, which ultimately is probably my drive. in a lot of ways. In terms of as ….

I like that when you create you really do create with a very small group of people, and in that space, before it goes out to all these people, that's….

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets..

My mom would always say this thing about writing - and I've taken it into account in a lot of things in my life - which is just, "Make it shorter." F….

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers..

I think I work as hard as I do now, because of a lot of lessons I've learned early on..