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

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.

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

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.

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

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.