I Definitely Believe In The Energy Of

There's Some Movies I Watch, They're Kind Of Like My Anti-anxiety Pill, My Anti-depressant Pill. I Watch Them At Least Once Or Twice A Month Probably. And I Never Stop Learning From Them As A Filmmaker.

I Would Hate To Think I'm Promoting Sadness As An Aesthetic. But I Grew Up In Not Just A Family But A Town And A Culture Where Sadness Is Something You're Taught To Feel Shame About. You End Up Chronically Desiring What Can Be A Very Sentimental Idea Of Love And Connection. A Lot Of My Work Has Been About Trying To Make A Space For Sadness.

Actors Are Pretending For You, But They're Not Lying. They Are Not Putting On A Guise Instead Of Themselves. They Are Finding Things Inside That They Have Experienced.

There Is A Drunkenness To Grief, Which Is Good.

As A Son Of A Man Who Pretended To Be One Thing For 33 Years Of My Life And Then Was Another Thing, The Questions Of 'what Is Real' And 'what Is Not Real' Are Very Blurrily Vivid To Me.