When people leave cults, they don't know that they left a cult.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

I'm interested in adapting books and all sorts of things.

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

In editing, it's amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It's amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.