No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling.

I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

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

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

I'm not a craftsman of graphics or art or film. I'm more of an idea generator and manufacturer.

We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.

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.