The sad thing about working on a movie is that you can never see the movie.

So when I write characters and situations and relationships, I try to sort of utilize what I know about the world, limited as it is, and what I hear from my friends and see with my relatives.

I want to do my own thing, and I'm trying to get closer to realizing that as a filmmaker.

I'm trying to tell a story and do it truthfully.

We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

I think directing and writing are very different jobs. Obviously, directing is a more social and managerial job. The other thing about directing is that it's a very, very pragmatic job, and writing isn't.

My time on the set is the least of my involvement. Most of my time is in pre-production and post-production.