The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If I'm afraid of it, then I want to do it.

Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

This is a good litmus test for us. It will tell us how much work we have to do, what sort of reception we're going to get from the community.

I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.