I’d say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.

The idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.

You would assume that a filmmaker should know how to edit, but pretty much every filmmaker I've worked with doesn't know how to edit.

I know these will become old stories someday and our pictures will become old photographs and we'll all become somebody's Mom or Dad, but right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening and I'm here.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field magicians of music videos.