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

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.

I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.

I think being mediocre and in the middle would be the worst. It's more interesting to get strong reactions, and to have the mixture of people who get it and the people who don't get it. And to invite a dialogue.

When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.

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.

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