If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I need what I'm thinking to come out into the world, even if it's a two-word approval, like, "Yeah, I agree," I need that approval so that in the morning I can get up and use that when I go to work. It's a weird version of focusing.

I'm sure there are directors who don't like to work with actors and don't know how to be sensitive to actors.

I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously influenced by noirish cinema whether that's Von Sternberg or Scorsese in the 70s or Lynch, etc.

I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.