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'm a kind of private guy.

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

I'm too big a fan of rhythm and editing. I'd much rather my editing be brave than my shooting.

When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.