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

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.

The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

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

I didn't really think in terms of clichés or non-clichés.

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.

I grew up in and identify with and that she works and exists in.