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 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.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

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.

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.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

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