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

To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.

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.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

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.

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.