I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.
I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.