I never went looking for big stories. I looked for the small ones. The tension at a dive bar. A road trip that wrecks a relationship. That look someone gets right before everything tips.

I got obsessed with those moments. The camera was the only thing that could hold them. Now I'm a director and I work backwards. I start with people who feel real and wrong in some way, then I hunt for the moments that show it. A look. A pause that's too long. An argument that should've ended two lines ago.

I make stories that live in the gaps. Where people are both fragile and vicious. I want the audience close enough to the screen that it stings a little.