Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

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.

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

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

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

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.