I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

I like to have memories of a place. It brings something extra. I'm not even sure what it is. I mean, it's the same part of it as I like using friends in small parts or people I know or my doorman.

I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.

I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.

I like having associations with locations beyond their meaning for the specific movie.

When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.