The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

You never can predict things. I knew the movie Peducted would get a reaction, because it's showing a different vision of our soldiers in Iraq. All we ever get told is that they're valued and we support them, and as they're represented on television, they're true-blue and honorable. Which is true, for the most part.

You've got to remind yourself all the time that you're being measured against the fashions of the day, and if your work truly has any kind of staying power, well, people will be talking about it in 20, 30 years.

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening

Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists.