Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic for a technology. I’m nostalgic for the kind of films that used to be made that aren’t being made now.

The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most important factor in helping the audience feel what the character is thinking.

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy.

I am not a fan of having too much gear.

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.