Sometimes, two people have to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together
I think I came to film-making through writing. I started to write, and people, teachers, responded to my writing.
As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion.
I think religion is often very different from spirituality. Religion is often about rules and people trying to control our lives who are actually very unspiritual. . . God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don
I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology because my dad was a science teacher. I kept writing all those years.
I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.
As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter.
Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to connected because it connects you to architecture, it connects you to painting, it connects you to writers, to actors. It connects you to really all of the arts.
The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.