I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it's been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

No one believes this, but when I'm working, it's the same, whether I'm working on 'Bad News Bears,' 'Before Sunset,' 'A Scanner Darkly,' or 'Fast Food Nation.' I'm the same person, trying to make it work.

I was dating girls who were actresses, and that was fun, so I took a playwriting class. But that was short-lived. That was one year. Around that time, I was seeing movies that were making me think in terms of images.

I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road to be able to make films, but I always had a long term. Whenever I was starting out, I had that patience.