I just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect.

I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.

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.

We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.

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

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'm always a sucker for a love story.