I make films that are very personal, and I always have. It's kind of the only thing that I think I have to offer as a filmmaker: the intimacy I've had with experience in a particular world, so the film comes from things I've seen and things I've felt. It gets transformed by the process. I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

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

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

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

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.

Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid.