I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me.

I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape that can be pursued well.

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

I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws.

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.