Try To Produce Your Own Films, Avoid

One Of The Huge Advantages Of Shooting In The Winter Is That Locations That Wouldn't Have Been Available To Us Suddenly Were, Like Yorkville. ... It's Just Specific Streets And Specific Angles. I Think That's What's Always Kind Of Shocking About Some Cities: They Are Really About Intersections.

Sometimes You Think You Want To Know Something, But It's Actually More Exciting And More Resonant When You Have To Try [and Figure It Out].

When You're Working With A Smaller Budget I Suppose One Of The Things That Has To Be In Your Mind When You Are Writing Is That You Have To Keep The Characters Down To A Minimum.

The Film Camera's Ability To Physically Move Through Space, Not Zoom Through Space - Every Time We Have A Video Camera The Movement Is Through Zoom; Every Time We Have A Film Camera It Is A Physical Movement.

Working On The Themes I Was Interested In, Through The Context Of A Particular Family, Was A Very Economical Way Of Dealing With A Lot Of The Issues I Was Concerned With.