I just remember seventh grade as being really difficult, because there's nothing meaner than a girl at that age. You gang up on people, and it's traumatic. It wasn't so bad for me, but there's a woman I know who's still traumatized by junior high. At that age, everything seems like a huge deal, but of course that changes when you get older.

When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.

I feel like the internet has encouraged people to look into things and try to find issuesthat because people have a lot of opinions. I think it's really important to encourage artistic freedom. I think if you inhibit that, that could be dangerous.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

I think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions.

I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.

My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having to be a director?" But it's hard to be around my dad and not be curious about filmmaking, because he thinks it's the ultimate medium.