All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.

There's so much great TV and I always thought it would be such a fun little sideway to make money and then not have to worry about my films making a lot of money.

I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

I can't wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It's about the capabilities of the people you're working with, what are their strengths and weaknesses. Some of the most brilliant actors need the spine of the text to work off of, and there's no shame in that; they're actors, not writers.

I'm not one of those directors who can just kind of walk away from the edit room and come back and check in.