Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

We don't take the time to be vulnerable with each other

You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities.

Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand?

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.