Whether a project is large or small, it doesn't matter much to me as long as I feel I can serve the story as best as possible..

I think now more than ever there's so much available honesty that you can find on the Internet. You can go on to YouTube and find really, really vuln….

By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and probably aren't ha….

In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I don't watch everything, and love everything, and….

Any work of art dignifies life..

There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better..

After that really, I spent the majority of the spring going to tons and tons of regional festivals throughout America. Every corner of the country, I….

Making movies is really hard, and it can be humbling. And once you put them out into the world, you can't control how people will respond to it..

All the more a cheesy musical seems fake, so it requires a level of honesty to be injected or an acknowledgement of that which is fake and fun about ….

I think the irony of modern life is that our data, our highly personal information, has been taken from us, but in many cases it was given away freel….

Blade Runner's just a noir at the end of the day. Rosemary's Baby is about the fear of having a child and how that gets in the way of a romantic rela….

I don't think in terms of what's going to be successful. I have plenty of friends who make very small movies and friends who make giant, $150 million….

What I think is great about Pippin, specifically, and I wouldn't make this generalization about all musicals, is that it is about how we tell stories….

But you certainly don't have perspective. And there's so much pressure going into that opening night because you know there's journalists, tons of ac….

I sometimes have to think about that because if I think about these five things and think of them all, I'll drop the balls, so I really have to prior….

And I was constantly trying to stay in body, so to speak. It feels very surreal, and I go away to a happy place where I'm there but not really there.….

I've heard a lot of variation of similar questions, but it's interesting to see the variations of audiences and how different people respond, so I th….

I was raised by ex-hippies, but I grew up worshipping a television set. I am skeptical of a lot of things, but I was on Myspace and Friendster, and I….

It's hard to look at anything with an objective eye. I think people bring themselves into the equation when they watch a movie. They bring their own ….

Obviously, this isn't my normal life, traveling to cities and talking to journalists. It's fun. It's really fun. I get to stay in a cool hotel and ea….

This needs to work on that level, but it has the additional strain of it's going to be profoundly scrutinized by political junkies from the right and….