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

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.

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

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

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.

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

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