Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.

Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect us.

I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.

So what if my face is falling apart? I don't give a damn. Anyway, it gives me character. Everyone thinks that they can stay pretty forever but some come out of Beverly Hills surgeries looking scary to me.

All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.