What I have learned first and foremost is to follow your instincts. As a filmmaker, there are no rules as to how to play this game. That is a big problem I think that exists in the education on how to be a filmmaker or how to make movies.

Here is the thing, you can make a dope movie and it may never see the light of day. I am crazy proud of my first movie.

I am a loyalist and I really absolutely love film.

The opportunity to shoot and get the depth out of the film - that I don't think you can get out of digital - is a huge deal for me.

I'm a big believer of "when there is a will there is a way" but from the studio's perspective I think it just seems like a bigger leap than you can get a sort of bureaucratic move to make.

I am not interested in simply working as a director. If I am not making movies that I want to make, that I feel passionate about, or that I feel are hopefully at the level of cinematic quality that I feel they should be then I am not really that interested.

The process of casting a movie has many complicated variables...