I learn from every movie I do because on every movie, I have a different experience.

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.

I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.

My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.