When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.

If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.

Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential.

The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

The lessons we learn, we must learn again and again.

In lower budget filmmaking, everything is a favor. You're pushing everybody, all the time. You're trying to get the best out of it that you can, and it has to be a labor of love, or you can't get it done.

When you're shooting a movie that's not necessarily a huge budget, you have to think about what you can leave out and still make it interesting.