I love working on scripts. I love coming up with ideas about what people would dress like or talk like. I love all that.

I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.

I'd be lying if I said I had confidence in every choice I've made, that I have faith in every film I do on every shot.

There's this kind of incredibly mistaken idea that because it's so much cheaper to roll the camera than it used to be and it's so much easier to accumulate a ton of footage, that then you can just go shoot a ton of footage and the editor will make sense out of it. But if you don't have something deliberate made, you're not gonna save it in the editing room.

Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.