When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.

I've learned that I need to learn how to direct without making the person distracted and keeping them comfortable, and pay more attention to lighting.

You can dwell on things, and if you open your eyes and pay attention to it, those things start popping up around you.

People say if you keep making work and keep putting it out, better things will come. I think artists should never forget that. I think that's what you have to be committed to if you're an artist, that's where the good feelings come from. It's so easy to get caught up in other stuff, like the business part of it. If you just have to be aware, just keep putting it out there.

I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students in it [and] one professor, because I feel like in terms of this school, I was one of the few students lucky enough to break into the art industry or the contemporary art world.