If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character.

In New York, you're forced to deal with life; it's there in front of you on a daily basis.

I'm Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.

You have to question a cinematic culture that preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario, which is both complicit and complex. It's misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman's sexual presentation of self.

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this.

I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

I don't know, I just got a feeling about her. You know when a song comes on and you just gotta dance?