I like film because it brings you very close to the absurd reality that you might spend a day shooting and not get a single image that you like or works, and you won't really know for a few days at least as you wait. It connects you and grounds you to a material reality and a patience that seems lost with digital. I also think the grain texture remains forever different, and in my opinion, what I find to be more beautiful.

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

And also, that's the kind of wonderful thing about film culture, is the interaction between films and who works on what, where they were before, and now what they're doing now, and that inevitably informs how people view a film.

I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.

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

I think its important for movies to recognize that they are part of a history of movies. I also think that most movies are about movies anyway, even if they're about something else.

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