My movies are not about being, but becoming.

I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but I knew I wanted to do something in the visual arts. And I'd always been around my dad's film sets, so the interest was there. But I didn't have the guts to say, "I want to be a director," especially coming from that family.

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

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 definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.