My department is to get actors to do stuff.

As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar.