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

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

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

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

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