“You cannot wait for somebody else to give you the keys. Make your best idea and make it right now the best way that you can right now. Do not wait. You are a machine that can just generate idea after idea after idea, and you need to make your thing right now...
“I like to say to students who want to get into this, that one of the things I’ve learned really hard is that every interview is an exchange of energy. And what you put out, you’re gonna get back. You know, it is definitely this exchange. And I said,...
“If we had absolutely no one in the movie, they might not have even been interested in interviewing me. But you know, then when it’s like, ‘Hey, we’ve got this Eric Roberts cameo, we’ve got Carrot Top, Jesse’s the Star.’ So...
“A narrative film, a long-form film is actually a lot of short-form films together weaved in one story. You are able to tell deeper stories. You’re able to dive deeper into characters. You can show their good sides, their bad sides, their hesitations,...
“I’m attracted to stories about problems created by adults that children have to deal with…problems not of their own making. Children didn’t create war. You don’t go into foster care because of something you did, it’s because of...
