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

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.

L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.

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

Life is too short for a half-rack.

There's some movies I watch, they're kind of like my anti-anxiety pill, my anti-depressant pill. I watch them at least once or twice a month probably. And I never stop learning from them as a filmmaker.

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