Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.

In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.

I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.

I'm just a relationship girl. I fall in love and I usually have long relationships. I like getting to know people well and having substantive, long relationships.

The economy is rough. I think that affects everyone from big filmmakers to tiny filmmakers.

I wanted to be a playwright in college. That's what I was interested in and that's what I was moving toward, and then I had the lucky accident of falling in love with film. I was 19 or 20 that I realized films are made by people. Shooting digitally became cheaper and better. You couldn't make something that looked like a Hollywood film, but you could make something through which you could work out ideas. I was acting, but I was also conceiving the plots and operating the camera when I wasn't onscreen. I got very unvain about film acting, and it became a sort of graduate school for me.

You don't need love and sex in films