When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit

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.

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

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

But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore

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.