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

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

I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

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

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

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

It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.