I like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.

When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what makes the world different. So, sometimes it means exaggerating certain kind of aspects, but I don't think it's that important or it's that much of an issue as long as you get an emotional truth across.

I love the idea of thinking of cinema as not that far from music. A lot of my favourite movie makers, the way they move their cameras or the way they cut just feel very musical - even if the movies have no music in them at all.

I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.

There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment.

I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.