The directing process is often a continuation of the writing. This is just a different skill-set.

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

We're still staring at TV screens, right? They're still monitors. But the way information is delivered is different. So it creates an interesting way of looking back at early films, because they're actually relevant in terms of the devices people are using. But the consideration, the debate, around those technologies was very different from what's being presented now.

I just think I love the process of making films. It's not tortuous for me at all. I love being with my crew. I love actors. There's a joy to the process.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.