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

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'm trying to get under people's skin in a way. I don't like films that go in one ear and out the other.

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.

To me the question of inspiration is an exercise in hindsight. The truth is inspiration is mysterious at the time. I don't think it's ever a rational process.

Although filmmaking is collaborative and involves trust, ultimately it is the director who holds the whole picture together in their head.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.