"Stay curious, look for inspiration in everything, and write it down.  You never know when you have a seed that you'll come back to."

"Not only am I rarely creatively satisfied, but satisfaction comes with small victories.  There's usually more frustration than applause or happiness."

"You're very fortunate if you have a partner who understands what you do and who works with you through the struggle of making and wanting to make."

"Even making small films is an intense thing."

"There is a lot of talk in creative fields about separating those who are creative and make things from all the other people, but that's fucking bullshit.  I don't think you can be a good designer if you don't have a business sense; I don't think you can be a good director if you don't have a sense of production.  I think it's all a part of the job and, frankly, we all have the capacity for creative output."

"I started working as a production assistant on independent features and that taught me what I didn't want to do.  I was turned off by certain things in production, in particular the attitudes that I saw on so many crews.  I read an interview with Jim Jarmusch and he talked about production being there to serve the film and not the other way around; that really resonated with me."

"Music videos are what made me want to go into filmmaking."