I guess I watch movies to make myself happier a lot.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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