I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.

I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.

My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.

By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.

If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is will power. You can will it into being if you just believe that you are going to make a movie.

I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.