A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

My movies are not about being, but becoming.

It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.

If you are not a part of the solution then you must be part of the problem. I am done with problems here!

As goes love so goes life.

The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

Nothing makes a player more productive than the last minute.

With good art, that's what happens - it comes directly out from inside of you almost instinctively.

Ash has worked with my dad, so I have to call her Aunty, na?

There are moments. You will know them.

9:00: I don't know what I want. I just point at the Dollar Menu and say, 'Give me all of that.