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If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.

There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.

What I do is create an aura of mystery.

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.

Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There's all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification.

Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.

I'd like to think that most of what I do is self-evident if you're listening to it or seeing it. But I don't mind the fact that it's hard to describe.

For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.