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I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all.

I think the way you make a movie dictates the movie that you make.

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you're interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It's a pastiche of all these things that deal with how you see the world.

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.

When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.