Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally - that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time.

I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to make movies I want to see.

It's more interesting for me as an audience member to see a movie about a loser.

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.