My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.

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

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

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.

I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.

Having a kid, it makes you slow down; when you're walking with a toddler to pick up a leaf it can take a half hour. You've never spent that time looking at a leaf before, having that kind of interaction. So I think it does make you change the way you look things.

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