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I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies.

I had friends who were actors. I had some close friends who are actors before I had fallen into it. And but I never approached anybody about doing it. But once I had been approached, I said, 'Sure and I'll give it a go.'

My films are completely new. I am not similar to anybody in the history of movies.

I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.

Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.

People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make new friends because you are a little more cautious.

I was obsessed with movies, and it ended up being the tool with which I could make friends. Because I was too painfully shy in other circumstances, I would say, 'Hey, do you want to make a movie?' And that's how I made friends, and it was also my escape.