I am interested in any genre, as long as something new can be done with it.  I have worked on comedies, thrillers, dramas, westerns, sci-fi, and horror projects, and have worked on documentaries as well in my time as a student.  Once I get to larger-scale projects, I hope to reach a broad horizon of genres and styles, and eventually make them my own.  I have written dark comedy, action-exploitation, family drama, and body horror scripts–the latter two subjects are of particular interest to me.

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Stylistically, I often prefer longer takes, wider shots, and strictly necessary camera moves.  I storyboard all projects that I work on in a visual capacity, so I have a good idea of the composition and spatial needs of the scene; while coverage is effective for an editor, so much attention is often given to it that the shots themselves will look bland.  I hope to not have to shoot coverage at all once I make larger-scale projects, and plan every single shot, potential cut, and camera movement far ahead in pre-production.  Handheld can be effective when it is used for a specific purpose–such as the enhancement of a documentary-like realist style, or to get into the head of a character–-but I almost always like to keep the camera on a tripod, and use as little handheld as possible, relegating movements to zooms, pans, and dollies.

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My creative philosophy is to make the exact kind of film I would want to see.  If I saw a poster, trailer, logline, or snippet of the story I have in mind, would I go see it, and if I did, would I like it?