Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.

With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is going to be better than today. We just all deal with it in a different way.

I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.

I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.