I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody..

I never got into 'MacGyver,' but 'All the President's Men' and 'The Conversation' were big for me..

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to ….

I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing a….

When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner mo….

Pierrot le Fou is something I keep coming back to. Its so surreal but still really engaging - it proves narratives within narratives are a landscape ….

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be..

If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to exp….

I don't spend a lot of time in nature. Probably less than most people that live in urban Texas..

When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through sheer thought that something really beautiful can tak….

Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored..

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper..

Editing is very satisfying process. You spend hours working on something and then you get to watch it. It's immediately satisfying where everything e….

I don't believe that narrative works when it's trying to teach a lesson or speak a factual truth..

As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite kn….

I've always been anxious about 'Primer.' There's good things about it, but all I've seen for a long time is the flaws..

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story..

I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at….

It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Comp….

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. I saw the core part of the plot. But if I ever take another look at it….

I feel like we want to compartmentalise things and say, 'Well, that's emotional, artistic and subjective, while this is intellectual, objective and m….