“Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.”

“'After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, 'Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,' but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they ”