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.

We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.

If I don't have to think about the commercial aspect of it, then I feel like I'm going to make better films.

The first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director all came because of the reputation I got coming out of Sundance as a veteran Sundance filmmaker.

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

I hope to keep working with television. I wouldn't mind doing more.