Sean Baker

Everyone's asking if I've been offered a superhero movie, and no, I definitely have not.

I definitely learned a lot about how to be more communicative with my crews.

I love to combine first-time actors with seasoned actors.

Filmmaking has been my love since my mother brought me to see James Whale's 'Frankenstein' at the local library at the age of six.

I love celluloid. I love the look of it.

When it comes down to it, I'm still in love with film - I'm a cinephile.

I've fallen in love with Los Angeles, and I love to explore it myself.

I went to NYU thinking I was going to make a 'Die Hard' sequel, or maybe action and genre films for the studios, but I ended up falling in love with personal cinema.

I'm very influenced by Mike Leigh and the way that he always has these climactic confrontations, like in 'Secrets and Lies' and 'High Hopes,' in which the ensemble cast meets in one location.

New York City is the most culturally diverse city in the world, and yet there have been few films about the Chinese, Latino, and Middle Eastern experience in New York.

I work with different actors with varied degrees of experience.

We're living in an age of the think piece.