My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having to be a director?" But it's hard to be around my dad and not be curious about filmmaking, because he thinks it's the ultimate medium.

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

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

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 amateur things.

More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.