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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.