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.

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

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.

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.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.