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I believe that filmmaking - as, probably, is everything - is a game you should play with all your cards, and all your dice, and whatever else you've got. So, each time I make a movie, I give it everything I have. I think everyone should, and I think everyone should do everything they do that way.

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.