Alexander's experience with Sideways left a lot of people in Hollywood scratching their heads. Nobody besides Fox Searchlight was going to give him the money he wanted, with no stars in the movie - yet it was super-successful. I hope that helped people think a little bit broader.

I like the idea of Eliza's voice-over at that moment: 'My father taught me I could reach the ear of God,' ... She has achieved a kind of consciousness where she believes making this gesture will have some kind of redemptive value. It's some fundamental human thing like love.

It's unclear in terms of looking for forensic evidence.

There's a lot going on at the end of the movie,

The movie is the story of four people trying to tap into a reservoir of something greater than themselves, a spiritual well.

I've been watching this family for three months standing on street corners and beating the bushes and doing everything they can to get her back and I feel terrible what they are going through and I wanted to put up this reward.

Those things are super important to us. We think a lot about the way the world is detailed, what the sound feels like, what the music is going to be doing. I hesitate to say it, but we like the classic tradition of melodramatic cinema, of trying to create the music and drama of the world.

Fabric is the hot thing. It's very dynamic and, in a cliched word, very cool.

Fingerprint examiners routinely testify that they have 100 percent confidence in their results, but that's just not the level of confidence that we really ever have in systems that involve human beings.

We keep hoping. It would be the happiest day of my life to write that check.