Everything is not laden with potential for drama in life.

I'm completely intuitive and I don't like to analyze things.

I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

For me, the music is always like the small rowboat I get into at the very beginning of my process.

Those of us who make films try to make something that we're feeling and that we would like. Then we just hope an audience responds the same way. It's very important to have the electrical circuit made, but I don't have control over how people feel when they flip the switch. So the whole idea of marketing research and test screenings is just foreign to me.

When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and realised that not all films had the giant crab monsters in them, it really opened up a lot of things for me.

I think of myself as an amateur filmmaker, not a professional, in the sense that "amateur" means love of something, for the form.