The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

I've always loved punk music, since I was in my early teens, since middle school.

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

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

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

Taking photographs seems to be a means to express some kind of emotional, abstractive narrative. I look at the images that I'm most proud of like a film about the world the way I see it (or at least saw it at that moment, a perspective that seems to be ever-shifting and filled with self-doubt.)