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.

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.

Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.

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