Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.

It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.

All these gadgets, the phone and the computer, they expose the inside of your brain in a way that's bad.

I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.

I'm always excited to work with actors.

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks.