Shooting videos with lots of effects is like shooting a bunch of puzzle pieces.

People have a natural tendency to read emotions out of faces, so when you see a face that is hyperreal but without the life behind the eyes, it's really off-putting and intriguing.

TV is generally an unfriendly environment for directors because you're expected to come in and tell a story in the voice of the show that already exists, and just fill in the blanks and then submit it back.

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.

Even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little.

I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room.

The way I look at stories is often from far outside, like a god's point of view, and also very, very subjective.