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I'm a gay man of colour.
I love being on a movie set.
I'm very fascinated by genre.
The art house is an elitist idea.
I love watching 'House of Cards.'
I want to make the iPhone of movies.
Existing outside of irony is so hard.
'The East' could easily be a TV show.
It's awesome to be part of a gay family.
I never think the ends justify the means.
It's funny how quickly human beings adapt.
I love James Cameron. I love what he does.
People are longing for tribe and community.
The best dumpster meal I has was the first one I had.
I'm just interested in carving out a meaningful life.
Sci-fi always appealed to me, like, since I was a kid.
Faith requires a leap; otherwise, it just becomes science.
I feel like I studied anthropology in college for a reason.
A good story isn't preachy; a good story is always entertaining.
If you want to make an anarchist film, make it with a corporation.
'Terminator' is one of my favorite films, and so is 'Terminator 2.'
Whatever you think of Edward Snowden, it took bravery to do what he did.
I don't want to make a 100 hundred million dollar movie I have no stake in.
I wouldn't necessarily recommend shooting a feature film on a still camera.
If you really want to have an anarchist experience, make a movie with a studio.
You think it's so cool to have movie stars in your movie, but they become people.
Marvel's storytelling is much wilder than 'The OA's,' but no one talks about that.
You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.
I went to graduate school for directing at AFI in L.A., and I wanted to be a director.
I thought 'Gone Baby Gone' was really modern in showing a couple going on an adventure.
The country gets so beat up in the media. It's worth remembering how much we love America.
A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.
We explored cults in 'Sound of My Voice.' I think cults have an underlying spiritual quality.
I think we have to go through a lot of rituals in order to fill the gap of meaning in our lives.
I think if aliens came to Earth, we would laugh. If there was an alien technology, we would laugh.
I like how collaborative and cult-like filmmaking is. It's really family-oriented, tribe-oriented.
Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists.
A lot of people dub our work as New Age. But for some reason, they don't dub Stan Lee's work that way.
That's the beauty of filmmaking: it's extremely humbling because you do it all over again all the time.
I think disparaging something you don't understand, while a very normal thing - I expect more from serious people.
On 'Sound of My Voice,' I was the first and last word, which is kind of a dictatorship. I like collectives, though.
It took us nine months to write 'The East'; we didn't start writing it on the computer until seven and a half months into it.
Nobody can seem more politicised and glamorous than the baby-boomers. But their kids are surprisingly robust and late bloomers.
When I was 14, I saw 'Terminator 2.' My mind was blown. What a beautiful movie. I found it really deep and also so entertaining.
Claustrophobia is a theme that I feel is really rife in 'Sound of my Voice' and struggling to come up for air from that feeling.
I think we're really hungry for family in America, especially when I feel like people are really pulled apart from their families.
The beauty of Netflix is, their job is to put stories out there, and not stories that appeal to everybody, which is maybe NBC's job?
When I call 'Action,' I love to be surprised. And the actors I've been fortunate enough to work with always surprise me in the best ways.
Especially in America, when you move away from home, sometimes you get disconnected with your grandparents, your friends you grew up with.
I think that 'Sound of My Voice' is about the claustrophobia of living today, and how do you crawl out of the claustrophobia towards the light?