I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Film is endlessly just beyond your reach. I think that's what I love so much about it.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.