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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.

My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.

It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

Every filmmaker's just going to keep trying to make it the best you can make it: make it as potent and interesting and entertaining and exciting and tough and sexy as you can.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.

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

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.