You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

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.

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures

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

You know it's always amazed me - I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

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