Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

I consider myself an independent filmmaker.

I think one of my favorite things about making low budget movies is that when you get into expensive moviemaking territory, it's almost impossible not to reverse engineer the movies. It's irresponsible not to think about the result and the financial result. But when you make low budget movies, you can put that out of your head.

I love 'The Killing', I love 'Homeland' and 'Mad Men', all those shows that lean into the tone of things.

My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.

My directing style is long takes. The longer take I can do, the more I can think of not doing it in cuts, the better.

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.