35 Quotes by Riley Stearns

I play bass, and I wanted to be a musician.

When everyone decides that they have to be a certain way, that there's one way to be a man and one way to be a woman, that's when we go down the wrong path.

Jujitsu helped me a lot in feeling more comfortable with who I was.

I lost ten pounds while shooting 'Faults' somehow and by the end of the shoot people were basically handing me stuff to eat in between takes.

Sometimes I wonder how my filmmaking would have been affected by film school but in the end I'm glad I got to figure it out on my own.

Specifically for 'Faults,' the three films I mention most as inspiration are 'Dogtooth,' 'Fargo' and 'Punch-Drunk Love.'

I was really interested in doing a martial arts movie, but maybe exploring ideas that maybe you wouldn't think to explore in a martial arts movie.

I have always been fascinated by cults and mind control, and specifically deprogramming from the cult.