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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.

I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

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.

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

Film is so immersive.

I think when people go into something for the right reasons, you're going to get a better film; you're going to get more intimacy and a stronger foundation of trust.

I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.