When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

Independent films are very hard to get made, but I'm lucky enough to get them made, so I'm going to keep doing it. I like my independence. I like being able to tell a story the way I want to tell a story. I don't like developing it with a team. I like coming to a story and deciding whether I want to do it or not.

Usually the characters are where I start. Then I continually ask myself, 'What's the worst thing that could happen to this character?'

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

I miss my mother very, very much.