“When it comes to a love story, you're like, 'I've been in love before....” — Emory Cohen Quote

When it comes to a love story, you're like, 'I've been in love before.' So it's closer to you than the other stuff, and for me, that can be less comfortable.

I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going to say. I want to investigate that for myself. With a character, you get to fully investigate that emotionally and understand the parts of them that are in pain and scared and are good. That's human.

If I wanted to play it safe, I'd get a normal job with a secure paycheck.

I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch.

I find the closer you get to people, the harder it is to satirise them.

A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a cloud you don't get something smooth, but irregularities at a smaller scale.

Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are.