I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it." It was not an honorable thing to do.

I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves, so they had to learn to survive.

Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

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

I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.

There's something about being a teenager that's so sincere. Everything is more epic, like your first crush. I feel that it's not always portrayed very accurately.