What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.

I had started out with the intent to make a love story and something not so grave or so dark.So I went into this saying, "I want to do a love story, not to be seen with rose-colored glasses, but not as heavy." As it turned out, it surprised me the place where it led actually was something so painful. I identified so much with them that I experienced a lot of that suffering as well.

What really enthralls me is working with the actor and seeing where you can go with that. It's in that exchange and that relationship.

To use an image, making a film is like climbing a mountain or crossing an ocean. Every day has its challenges.

When it comes time to make the scenes concrete and shoot them, I want the freedom for it to exist which means adding, subtracting or modifying.

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

Every day, there's that tension and the pressure. Each scene that you shoot is like getting to that next step, but there's still that mountain to climb. So it's not like one day is harder or one scene is harder. They are all equally challenging.