"Even though maybe, of course any kind of life is going to involve some unhappiness and some happines..." — Celine Song

Part of why I wanted to make 'Past Lives' as a movie is because I know what's required in theater. The thing about theater is that its relationship to time and space is very different; in theater, time and space is figurative, it can be as small as a light change or the way an actor turns and looks at someone.

I learned so much about leadership from Rafe Judkins. I learned everything about leadership when you're running a show, or in my case, running a film. So much of it is about responsibility. He taught me about the responsibility of the chief creative person, to make sure that it's good. I learned so much from that, as an artist, holistically.

It is so much easier actually to fantasize about having that guy who is in finance, 6'5'', blue eyes, than actually dreaming of a true love that makes all of those criteria feel meaningless.

The thing that I think that has gotten much harder is that it used to be that this dating market or the marriage market used to be local. It would be about the garden parties or a town. But then what you realize is, well, in 2025, the marriage market or the dating market is not on our phones on social media and, of course, in all the dating apps.