His top ten favorite movies are "2001: A Space Odyssey" , "Eraserhead", "Barton Fink", "Hour of the Wolf", "Clockwork Orange", "Solaris", "8 1/2", "Persona", "Metropolis", "Once Upon A Time in the West".
Writes all of his screenplays on napkins and notebooks. After writing his first full screenplay, which he now expresses much hatred for, the hard drive he wrote it on crashed and he lost everything. He now transfers his scripts onto his typewriter.
Has stated his largest influences as Peter Greenaway, Bernardo Bertolucci, Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Lars Von Trier, and Akira Kurosawa.