I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left the strictures of high school, and you're trying to break free and form yourself but you have to support yourself as well. We don't really give enough credence to that time of life and to its troubles.

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

I love films where you go into the cinema and loosen the edges of yourself and you hopefully enter into the world of the film. You're watching something unfold before you. I prefer the idea of wonder or intense wonder over shock or something.

I don't think good films have messages.

I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing.