There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.

I find it very eerie when somebody is being really polite.

There's no staying where you were. If you're not doing anything, your skills and point of view are atrophying.

I want to make a bunch of small movies. I'm really interested in that for me in the future.

You don't have your film finished when you have your director's cut finished. It's just a bunch of green screen.

As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always in the air. My parents would always talk about science at the dinner table, saying something about this patient or some other patient. So I guess for a nanosecond in early high school, I thought about going into medicine.

You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.