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The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell.

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

It's tricky to take a book of short stories and turn it into a feature film.

I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.

I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.

A story is how we construct our experiences.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.