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

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.

The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.

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

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.

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 would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.