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Everything good in my life can be traced back to my mother's sobriety. She showed me that broken people can - with the help of others - turn themselves around.

So, yes, I wrote a script called 'Ben Is Back' that I got to make with a bunch of remarkable artists and craftspeople.

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There was a part of me that wanted to take my place next to, you know, Debra Granik. She's such a hero for me.

I try, in my films, to normalize things that maybe 20 or 30 years ago a film would have been about. 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner' needed its own film, but now blended families you see all the time.

Black people are more likely to be incarcerated than white people. That's just a fact and it's regrettable and it's got to change.

One of the great kicks of having a movie made is that you envision this world.

There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long time.

Ultimately what I try to do is work on stories I love with people I admire, and sometimes they get made and sometimes they don't.

Writing a really good screenplay is not easy. It can be a very punishing form.

If there's a photo of a roomful of kids I'm the one with the biggest smile or my hand over my face.

I make sure when I direct that it's a very joy-based set that hopefully is filled with a lot of respect.

Well, because my films are really about how people interact with each other, and the complexity, and the nuance, and the surprise of those moments I try to create a safe enough space that allows the actors to operate from...

I want to make a series of films of contemporary America that feel urgent and deal with sometimes-topical matters, but hopefully in a universal way.

The kinds of movies I make are not easy to get made.

I never try to think I have the answer to what people should do or not do.

I think the best dramas are as funny as possible and the best comedies have, underneath them, real substance.

The most autobiographical thing I've ever written is my second novel, called 'An Ocean in Iowa.' That is pretty close to my childhood.

I wanted to direct long before I'd even written a screenplay.

When I was a young lad just out of college at the North Carolina School of the Arts, I directed several plays that I wrote. It was essential theater, meaning we had no money, so our set may be six...

Pieces of April' was going to be a 3 to 7 million dollar film and we had three entities, two studios, and one wealthy man and they all backed out. It was quite a blow.

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