Relationships are now off-kilter.

I love that India has declared dolphins non-human people with all laws that apply to human. I'm fascinated with the alien-ness of that.

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.

If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling.

It would be pathological narcissism to assume that that person had to live how I live.

I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.

I went to school to be a psychiatrist. That's where I was going until I had a teacher-student conference with one of my teachers and there were film school pamphlets, and he said, "You don't belong here. Get out. Go to film school."