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

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

You get a kind of surreal feeling and also it allows you to focus on the things we want you to focus on in a new way - the stuff that's very small and mundane that happens in a person's life when they're in a hotel room. There's more interest because you're seeing a puppet do things that you're very familiar with that you might not notice if it was a human doing it.

Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?

You spend most of your time as a director trying to move forward with the movie. It happens on a daily basis, if not more than once a day, that you are struggling with budgetary constraints. Whereas when you're writing, the limitation that you have is your imagination. So it's decidedly non-pragmatic.

I try to present something that is true so I don't further destroy the world with my contribution to it.

I have a background in theater, so I have experience with actors. I like actors - I used to be one.