Am I doing the movie because I'm really excited about it and want to do it, or am I doing it because it seems like it's a big budget or something lik….

My directing is really weird. Everything is based on whether it's working or not. I don't try to fix something if it's not working, I'll just change ….

I do like the idea of doing something different, maybe doing something that's more like a genre film. And there are certain actors that I'd like to w….

The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there..

For a lot of people, you get cramped making decisions together and living together and every other thing that starts to happen. I just think you have….

There's something really nice about missing the person you're with. To have someone be apart enough to force independence and to also look forward to….

Most of my horror inspiration is really older stuff and really new stuff..

I want to communicate with people, and I want to make something that works, and that people like. I'm never purposefully trying to be antagonistic or….

I don't have an agent. I don't take meetings or anything like that, so I don't really know what's out there. I'm not closed off to anything, but I'd ….

It's great to meet people in a setting where it's really conducive to hanging out and having fun. Most film festivals are really low-stress, and good….

I think in general I personally have a tendency to protect other people's feelings, and I've noticed that becomes a major hindrance to communication.….

During improvisations, I'll hear people bringing back up details from something I heard about at breakfast or something somebody was saying that they….

I always loved the work. As soon as I finished a movie, the most exciting thing to do was to try to jump into the next one. How I feel about it is th….

It's really easy to finish a movie and sort of immediately dive into the next one, because I love working with actors so much and being on set, my in….

There are different levels of scripting that we all use; I think I'm the most improvised of the three, and probably Andrew's the most written. But al….

I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff….

A lot of the people I'm working with are not actors, or it's their first time in a movie. I'm not trying to shape performances, coax performances out….

I do think there's a smaller audience that's looking for something that's a little more adult and a little more nuanced [than many Hollywood movies].….

[Having bigger budget] allowed me to be a full-time filmmaker for a couple months and not have to have a day job and be balancing a bunch of other st….

We're looking for a certain kind of realism or naturalism, and we go about it in different ways, but I think we're all striving for the same end resu….

I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of..