It's hard to tell what people realize. Everybody's different and has a different understanding of the difference in times.

To have a creative outlet that you can control is really important because you do a lot of waiting to be cast, then waiting to go into production, and then waiting on set.

I come from a background of independent films.

Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.