Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

I don't know if I ever told you this before, but you're the only one I ever waited for this long.

The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.