Occupation: Film Director Birth: December 7, 1976
I know, we can barely fit them in. That is a big challenge. Treating four lead characters equally, within a 30-minute format, is definitely challengi….
My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods..
No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives yo….
We've shot with babies and kids and it was tough. It's not easy. It looks tangential, but it is not..
I like being nostalgic and maybe crying a little bit..
We get to get into the nitty-gritty and the minutiae of the way they relate now, and that's really valuable. We just have to make sure we don't repea….
I'm interested to see what happens to Spike Lee with limited resources, you know? I love Spike Lee's movies. But you know what? I kinda liked his mov….
I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself..
I have family, I work with a lot of friends, but you'll never find me saying, "Hey, let's get a drink at 8:30 [pm].".
Jay [Duplass] and I normally just sit around and people watch, and we talk about things that are happening in our lives, or with people that we've me….
When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful..
I'm a narrative-minded actor. I'm thinking of the story. I'm not worried about whether the camera is on the right side of my face, or where the camer….
Somewhere in Time is in the top-five cheesiest movies ever made. Its super melodrama..
"Repulsion" for me was a really big movie where I was like, "OK, technically there's nothing scary going on here but I'm kind of terrified." Somethin….
We've done things that are faster at times, but it's definitely different when we direct all the episodes because it's like we have to write them all….
I feel like, if I'm being honest with myself, my biggest skill set is as a writer 'cause I can do that quickly and I'm really grounded in story struc….
Making movies that are really cheap and that can be owned and that you maintain your control of is really exciting..
If we have anything to offer, as filmmakers and as TV makers now, it's this ability to feel as close to a documentary as you can get in a narrative f….
When you're writing a 25-minute episode that can be anything, sometimes you just start with a character, and you let them walk into the room. Then yo….
There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends..
I really like Jason Blum a lot. We're friends, and while we make wildly disparate films, we share a philosophy about low-budget filmmaking, about tak….