L.a. Is So Isolated And Unhip In

As A Son Of A Man Who Pretended To Be One Thing For 33 Years Of My Life And Then Was Another Thing, The Questions Of 'what Is Real' And 'what Is Not Real' Are Very Blurrily Vivid To Me.

Sadness Is A Super Important Thing Not To Be Ashamed About But To Include In Our Lives. One Of The Bigger Problems With Sadness Or Depression Is There's So Much Shame Around It. If You Have It You're A Failure. You Are Felt As Being Very Unattractive.

Film Is Endlessly Just Beyond Your Reach. I Think That's What I Love So Much About It.

Humans Are Vulnerable, Messy Little Animals And That's Normal. And All I Want To Do Is Make A Space For That In My Films.

My Experience, With Both My Parents, Is That Grief Has A Lot Of Down, Sad Things, But I Was Also Really Emotionally Raw, In The First Year After Each Of Them Passed. Flowers Smelled More Intensely, My Relationships Were Hotter, And I Was More Willing To Risk. I Was Going For It A Lot More. I Was 'unsober' And I Wasn't Playing By My Rules.