# Snapshots

... the ultimate advantage you can have is having cool never-before-seen ideas in your movie.

I suffer because I said yes to myself, not because I ignored or silenced or starved the relentless fire in my guts.

There's a certain kind of suspense and mystery to the forests, heavy rain clouds, and grey skies that lends itself to the thriller genre; which I love the most.

I think I lost about ten pounds, but I made it out feeling invincible and have never wanted to do anything else in life since.

Film work is endlessly fascinating and rewarding and never-ending, and that’s even before taking into account all the incredible artists, collaborators and businesspeople with which you get to meet and work.

... pissing off powerful people is at the top of the list. Having a well-attended funeral is another goal.

If art illuminates the human experience, then my goal is to create work that helps people appreciate all the similarities that we often overlook. Plus, I just love weird shit.

There is no end goal to reach. There is no mountaintop to climb and then you've "made it"—there are just more mountains.

As humans, we have a need to express ourselves. And at the most fundamental level, as artists, it's why we do what we do.

I fought back in my own little ways, like dressing as the macabre Angel of Death for “Bible Character Day.”

There is also an unhealthy obsession with "natural talent," making it somehow more meaningful than hard work, and this has never sat well with me.

There is nothing more motivating than just observing human beings in the wild.

I think all artists are inherently invisible problem solvers. We see an empty space in the world and want to fill it with our ideas, our images, and our stories.

I have always sought to understand as many points of view as possible. I want to make these worlds accessible through empathy. To make them entertaining by surprising audiences and subverting expectations.

The only way I've found happiness in this crazy business is to build a solid friend circle of people who genuinely want to see me succeed and vice versa.