It bugs me when they have people my age [28] playing teenagers.

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.

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

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

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

Having a kid, it makes you slow down; when you're walking with a toddler to pick up a leaf it can take a half hour. You've never spent that time looking at a leaf before, having that kind of interaction. So I think it does make you change the way you look things.

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