I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.

Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

I try to shoot the first rehearsal because people are more spontaneous. People in real life don't really know where they are going to be either positioning themselves or how they will be saying their words. When people goof during the first take, it usually looks realistic.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.