Director

Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.

Yeah, in my scripts, I don't tend to describe landscape too clearly because I like to keep it really basic and sort of let people paint their own picture. I don't find it helpful to spend a page describing a setting, except for maybe a few key things.

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

I'm a believer in film school.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

I went to my first college to play soccer.

When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

You know, when you're isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

You can't write something to please someone.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

I love the first hour of a horror movie, the fear and anticipation. Then, when it gets bloody, I lose interest.

When someone stays with you and they're not your guest, even when they are your guest they get on your nerves. When people visit for long periods of time, that just happens.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

When I hire actors I believe in their abilities.