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.

My father is so in love with making movies, and he'sso charismatic about it, that it's hard to be around him withoutwanting to make movies.

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

I think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions.

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

I've always written my own scripts, I really like doing everything from the beginning and taking it all the way through, I've probably learned that from my dad.

It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.