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

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

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.

I pretty much believe that a film is a film and when an audience watches a film, they finish it.

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

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.