My Working Life Is Me

There's Nothing Else Exactly Like It In Any Other Art Form, The Orchestration Of So Many Different Elements. It's Endlessly Fascinating What Can Be Done Editorially. You Can Create Meaning Where There Was None, You Can Create Feeling Where There Was None, You Can Create Narrative Where There Was None. Two Frames Can Be The Difference Between Something That Works And Something That Doesn't. It's Fascinating.

There Are Three Major Social Issues That This Country Is Struggling With: Education, Poverty, And Drugs. Two Of Them We Talk About, And One Of Them We Don't.

There's Definitely A Way Of Thinking And A Way Of Being In The South That Has Its Advantages And Disadvantages.

I Never Leave The Writer Behind, Because You Rewrite The Movie In Post, Or At Least I Do. I Always Do, And I Feel Like Anybody Who Doesn't At Least Explore That Possibility Is Short-changing Themselves. Editing Is The Most Fun And Most Exciting Part Of The Process.

I Don't Consider Myself To Be Particularly Gifted In The Way That Other Filmmakers Are Gifted.