I usually bring a point and shoot with me so I can go out on the weekends and shoot a bit. I used to bring more cameras, but I'm also an Ebay nut so sometimes I'll order something if I'm really pining for it when I'm on location.

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

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

I don't really like watching my work. I don't mind watching it when I was a little kid because I forgive myself a lot, since I was a little kid.

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.

You don't share the things you're forced to share [on a movie set].

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