I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so it was a really beautiful and kind of perfect moment in my life when I realized that I could combine this idea of wanting to write and tell my own stories with the environment I had grown up in and knew well - that I could make film as opposed to writing being a departure from what I knew.

It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that.

Plus, doing a zombie movie is quite liberating. It's fun not to take myself seriously all the time.

I enjoy doing my more intimate and less commercial pictures and also I enjoy directing.

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.

I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge.