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I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell.

Every movie is a love story.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.