Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.