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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.

I still think that movies are amazing; I respect actors and directors.

It's rare that movies can sort of capture the tone of life; movies always feel like they have to be one thing or another.

When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Now, I love movies so much, but I find a lot of movies to be arrogant in the way they're kind of know-it-alls - they have perfect characters on the screen that know everything about themselves.

One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

I think I'm a very sentimental person. Conscious or not, that's what draws me to the kind of films I want to make.