I Just Try To Let

Zoe Saldana Is Such An Angel. She’s Got Such An Openness And Vulnerability On Camera And Yet Such Great Strength. She Can Kick Ass With The Best Of Them, But Then She Can Soften And Open Up In A Way That Is Magnetizing Whether You’re Watching Her On Set Or On Screen – She’s Got A Real Power To Her. I Love Her; We’ve Known Each Other For Years And It’s Great To Come Back To That Kind Of Familiarity, Especially When You’re Working With Such Intimacy.

My Dad Died When I Was A Kid, So I Think It Became A Place For Me To Go Where My Mom Knew That I Was Safe And Taken Care Of And Looked After.

If It Was A Biopic About Glenn Greenwald, I Would Have Immersed Myself More Fully In His Personal Life And Gotten To Know Him As Much As I Could, But Because It Was Much More About His Relationship To This Particular Situation, To The Guardian, To Laura Poitras, And To Ewen Macaskill, And Edward Snowden, I Was Able To Really Learn A Lot About Him From Reading His Book And Reading His Many Articles And Accounts Of That Time.

We [with Neal Dodson And Corey Moosa] Spent A Lot Of Time Writing, For Lack Of A Better Word, This Manifesto About What We Wanted To Do. We Wanted To Find Work That Was Relevant Socially And That Didn't Take Audiences For Granted.

I Think It's Like, You Know, You Can't Get Ahead Of Yourself, Because No Amount Of Success Or Exposure Or Opportunity Is Going To Really Matter Or Be Ultimately Fulfilling Unless You Can Be Totally Present In What You're Doing Right Now.