My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

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.

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.

I was so happy with my bow ties from the last kickstarted project that I'm back for more.

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.

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

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.