I often have a theme in mind when I'm starting. I know that I want everything to be in a world of, say, evolution, or guilt.

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.

And so not only do you have to make that work, you can't really start putting the thing together in any form because some of the shots are very short and obviously many of them take so long, you're waiting months and months and months before you can see if it's going to be working emotionally.

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.

Sand is overrated. It's just tiny little rocks.