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.

The camera lies all the time; lies 24 times/second.

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

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

I'm always looking for a kind of new musical entity to sort of move into a motion picture venue

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