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.

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

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

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.

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.

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.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.