Yael Stone

Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.

In Australia, kids play in American accents.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.