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 tried ice-skating and wasn't very good at it.

I don't hang out at trendy Hollywood bars.

At age 12 I had an obsession with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and then proceeded to watch all the other Kubrick films I could including a doc called Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures in which it was revealed to me that he started as a photographer...I got a camera sometime shortly after, but spent many years just photographing flowers in my neighborhood.

Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each other. Everybody's got such a crazy hormonal drive and reacting to each other differently and getting upset over little things. High school puts all these potential explosions in one place.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.