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 do like directing other people's material.

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time

I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features.

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

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point

Everybody doesn't have to have a daughter who's a goodie-two-shoes.