Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell

“Streetwise. I discovered this movie not too long ago when I was shooting Fleishman Is in Trouble and one of our PAs, who was brilliant, this guy Eli, loved him, real cinephile, was wearing a T-shirt that kind of referenced this movie, which is about street kids... He had really a helpful insight... And said, 'It sounds like she’s like a runaway, like a teenage runaway, and there’s something kind of feral about her... Like the ground is falling out from under her.'”

“Streetwise. This one was shot in Seattle, where I live, in the early '80s, and it follows a number of homeless youth through the city. It's a really beautiful film, it's a really important film. This is kind of a subject that's near and dear to my heart because my sister has worked in youth homelessness for a long time. It's also a really interesting artifact of what my city was like in the early '80s.”