I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a living at being an artist until Sundance.

It's just not enough time on set. That's my favorite time. I live for that time on set. I feel like that's when I'm stretching and flexing my muscles and learning how to direct better.

I'm drawn again and again to relationships between people who really, really want to connect and just can't get out of their own way to do it.

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.

Although humor is present in every one of my films, it has always been used as a way to make the darker, heavier stuff in my stories more palatable. I never set out to make 'Humpday' a comedy.

All we really want in life is to connect to other human beings, and when you desperately want to connect physically to one specific human being and you can't? That's something I find compelling.

It feels to me like everyone is going to do their best work when they feel emotionally safe.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I feel like this is the way I was meant to interact with acting. Which is as a director, and helping, working with actors to find their way. Facilitating their performances is so satisfying for me.

There's so much great TV and I always thought it would be such a fun little sideway to make money and then not have to worry about my films making a lot of money.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

Only with grace, can we reach the goal.

The emotion called love occurs in one's body and it is under the control of another person. The other person can cause it to occur at any time.

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.

I love newspapers. I've worked on newspapers, all my life. I've always loved it.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

I don't like when things don't match. I love some Eighties fashion, like Grace Jones but primary colours only work in certain situations.

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.

There's a lot of rage you have to express it somehow. If I didn't express it in song, I'd become incredibly violent.

He said, 'Always. Always.