All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart.

The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each film is a risk, and the praise doesn't save you from that risk.

For me, an actor is really, first and foremost, a person and an individual, more than they are an actor or a professional.

The questions of economics, and how they infect, or rather how they affect intimacy. And that's probably the subject of all my films.

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.