I'd always wanted to work in television once I found out that they started to hire independent filmmakers to direct.

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

I'd love for there to be a situation - a world in which that's just not even a question anymore. We are all filmmakers - different stripes, genders, sexual orientations, colors - and our work can be taken on its own terms. I'm really looking forward to that day.

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

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

I try to build relationships with the actors, at least to some degree beforehand, whether it's phone calls because I'm from Seattle or all of us meeting in person at some point, which is ideal if at all possible before we get on set together.

My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.