When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain way. If you make a movie it's really an act of translation.

I only work with people I trust and respect.

I love to bring humour into my work. Because comedy is not a huge part of the art world. And big-business film takes itself very seriously.

There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.

If liking Katy Perry and drinking margaritas is gay, then who wants to be straight?!

When I read the book [The Adderall Diaries] I loved it, and I maybe had an inkling that there was a lot of good material in there. I didn't quite know at the time how to adapt it into a film, but I hoped I would figure it out one day.