I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It's a small proportion of what I do, but it's always what people seem to focus on.

My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.

Nice girls aren't always what they seem.

I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.