I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.
Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.
I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.
And over the course of the last six years, as I've directed more features and commercials, I've become better at articulating exactly how I want the audience to feel.
I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.
Everyone wants to be loved; everyone wants to know where they're going in life; everyone wants to have a sense of direction and feel the next day is going to be better than today. We just all deal with it in a different way.
There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.