To me it's like, every time I'm a director, like today, you're the captain of the ship, so you better dress like it. You're the host of the party.

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

I definitely believe in the energy of the set and the energy of the actor, way more than your written word.

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.

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.

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

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