Anything can be taken out of context and anything you say or do is not necessarily an accurate reflection of who you are in your totality. There are small moments of your life that when taken into account with the rest of your life start to paint a picture.
But we're not this one stupid thing we said three years ago, or ten years ago, or even last week. We seem to judge people as if they are.
I studied method acting for four years and I'm a big believer in the idea that it's not about the actual experience itself. You don't have to go through exactly what this character has gone through.
I'm writing, I'm directing, I'm editing, I'm mixing, I'm showrunning. There is a certain point where it's like, the work is the work.
I don't even like getting my picture taken because I feel terrible about the way I look. I'm so self-conscious about things.
I was never interested in acting on film or in television, but I was always more inclined to writing and directing, and the exploration of character.
I've always wanted to write, I've always wanted to direct. The conscious decision was always to not be an actor.
I looked at theater, in the sense that theater is unmanipulated. If I want to pay more attention to one character on stage than another, I can. I think there's not enough theater in film and not enough film in theater, in a way.
I don't want to make a comfortable film. I'm not interested in that. I'm not interested in answering people's questions; I'm interested in posing questions. I'm interested in sparking a conversation between two people about what something means. That's enough for me, as a writer and as a director.
I always wanted to write and direct films for as long as I can remember.
I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination.
The way that I deal with actors as a director is I just talk to them forever before we even arrive on set.
To put it simply, I'm not interested in making comfortable films, and I don't want to crush the audience's imagination. I want them to feel like they might have missed something.
If you keep your heart open you can meet people who change your life.
When we go to the cinema, we bring all of our preconceptions of actors with us.
I don't design stories to fit some political ideology. I design stories about characters who I love and care about, while trying to make sense of an increasingly mad and toxic and insane world.
I was very sensitive, so when sensitivity has no place to go, it's often turned into anger or frustration.
Do I think that, when we're teaching a book at school, should we go through a myriad list of trigger warnings? No. But I understand why people desire it.
I can only get to a certain point as I write and then I have individual conversations with everyone that I cast. I always do a rewrite based on the conversations.
