Sadness is a super important thing not to be ashamed about but to include in our lives. One of the bigger problems with sadness or depression is there's so much shame around it. If you have it you're a failure. You are felt as being very unattractive.

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

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

People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

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

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.