I always try to make the soundtrack a good CD on its own.

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 never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

I always like to keep the budget as small as possible just to have the most freedom.

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

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.