It's been a lifetime of trying to have less beef. Beef comes very naturally to me. I was born with my dukes up, but that's not always necessary anymore. I have to retrain myself.

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.

I like to have a project. I live to have something to waste my energy on, something to think about. To figure out like a puzzle.

The beautiful moment sits very close to the horrific one.

I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that... it was complete chaos of life, and then this horrific non-response from the powers that be. There was a lot of misery and sadness tied up in that.

I don't have to be making something to feel like life has value.