I am not a fan of improvisation, because it bores me. Working off a tight scenario gives you the confidence and ability to - why don't we change this a little bit and bring it back to the script. You always discover things while shooting.

I think when you make a movie, one of your main focuses as a director is to inspire everyone else to give their best. Like manipulation.

We have basic urges all the time. They just manifest themselves in different scenarios, and we have to turn those weaknesses into our strengths. Art is very much about making your weaknesses your strength.

Creativity is very self-indulgent.

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

Love comes from the strangest places.

I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted in society.