Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth.

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.