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People Ask 'how Does Doing A Film Compare To Doing An Ad?' Well, When You're Doing A Commercial You Don't Have To Sell Tickets. You Have A Captured Audience. Which Is Actually Completely Rare And Great; It Gives You A Lot Of Freedom. When You Make A Film, You Have To Do Advertisements For The Film.

We Never Did Things As We Were Supposed To Do. That Was Part Of Our Ethic. We Did What Felt Right To Us, Not What Someone Told Us We Should Do.

If You Ask Me, The Place That A Story Happens Is As Equal Character. It's Almost Like An Ecological Viewpoint: These People Are Living In This Piece Of Land, And In This Piece Of Land In This Time This Is Possible. For Me, I Almost Think Location First. It's Time First - What Year Is It - Then Where Are We, And Then Who Is In It.

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.

There's Some Movies I Watch, They're Kind Of Like My Anti-anxiety Pill, My Anti-depressant Pill. I Watch Them At Least Once Or Twice A Month Probably. And I Never Stop Learning From Them As A Filmmaker.