I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.

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

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.

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.

I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera.

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

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