The Directing Process Is Often

I Think Ultimately If You Have A Very High Expectation Of Your Audience And You Know Exactly What It Is You're Trying To Express Through The Medium Of Film, There Will Always Be An Audience For You.

I'm Obsessed With This Idea Of Storytellers And People Who Have A Narrative, And Sometimes Sustain A Relationship Because They're Telling A Narrative And Someone Is Listening To That. Often The Nature Of The Relationship Is Determined By How Well They Tell The Story, Or Someone Else's Ability To Suspend Disbelief, Or Infuse Into Their Narrative Something Which They May Not Even Be Aware Of.

I Wanted To Make Sure That The Environment Of The Shooting Itself Was Not That Controlled, And The Way To Go About That Course Was To Work With As Small A Crew As Possible.

You Are Traveling And See These People Shooting The Entire Experience Of Going Through A City, And Maybe In The Back Of Their Minds They Sustain The Illusion That They Will Edit It All, But I Don't Think That's It.

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.