I try not to articulate ideas in the film once I've arrived on the plot and the characters. I believe that if I focus my attention with enough compas….

I make films that are very personal, and I always have. It's kind of the only thing that I think I have to offer as a filmmaker: the intimacy I've ha….

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear..

I try to keep feeling what's going on and try to use the camera, the actors and the design to enhance those feelings. There's something really emotio….

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me..

The praise helps on a deep level, which gives you the grounding that encourages you to trust yourself. On another level, each film is a risk, and the….

I think parenting well is not so different than trying to consider how to be successful at any relationship. Like, how do you partner well? How do yo….

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal..

I've worked with non-professional actors, I've worked with movie stars, I've worked with kids, I've worked with older people, and I've found my job a….

To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself..

There was an age in which it was clear to me that my parents weren't perfect, but then there was an age at which I had empathy for that. And that was….

All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That’s what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment..

So there's a choice that I made to tell stories that are still psychological melodramas about domestic issues. The challenge is to figure out how to ….

I do love the young adult novels as a form and genre, because it has a purity of intention and heart..

Utopia is something that I think about in connection to an experience I had when I was a kid..

To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain..

I'm someone who can create critiques of individuals based on their economic history. That's one way I look at people in terms of one story that could….

I'm a version of the same person..

Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema..

People, for reasons of kind of security, they tend to move towards people like themselves..

I tend not to think that anything I happen to be reporting on in my films is special. Meaning that people are always saying to me, 'you must love New….