The idea that we cause harm by doing what we perceive to be the right thing, that’s another theme that interests me. Because most people don’t intend to cause harm, they cause harm by doing the right thing – in their mind.

The intrepid traveler Freya Stark once said, “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” The uncomplicated joy of meeting a new day with no past, with no plan, and with no one in the world knowing where I am can be compared only to waking up on Christmas morning when I was a child. It’s the closest I have ever come to understanding the word “freedom.

If you think about it, it's obvious why that's so. They have at their disposal the information which really is the top-secret, most precious, national security information that we have.

If you are serious about stopping people before things take off, then necessarily your evidence is going to be more ambiguous.

He knows the energy you expend from trying to get from point A to point B to point C. And when somebody lies and that throws your trail off a million miles from where it ought to be & the lie is a lot more consequential.

I was so hung over for that whole movie ... I'm thinking, 'God, I got a headache. I am just dying here. I got to go lay down.' But on film it came across a certain way.

Like in 'Pretty in Pink' for example, people said, 'Oh, he's so sensitive and lovely in that movie,

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.

In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.