I'm interested in what actors reveal about themselves through the structure of the character.

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.

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.

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

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

People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves.