I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn't matter. Because I think it's pretty much the only thing that matters.

In college, you're kind of designing who you want to be. And I wanted to be a big reader.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

Even though I occasionally appear on it, I don't watch television.

Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

I actually have a thing about proper nouns. They clang on my ear in a weird way when I hear them dropped into movies.

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

We should see our calling as our life’s major assignment

Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above!

Nature time and patience are the three great physicians.

Any work you do, do it the best you can and achieve the maximum result.

For me, pictures provide a means of holding, intensely, a moment of communication between one human and another.

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

Even if there is intelligent life somewhere, which perhaps there is, I'm agnostic about it, I don't know.

Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit – we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.