It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

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.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

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

I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.

I think you just assume that your memory is just sort of a video playback of your experience, but it's nothing like that at all. It's a complete refabrication of an event and a lot of it is made up, because you're filling in spaces.