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

Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.

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

Generally I just pick music that I like. That's the part I really enjoy: When I get permission for the songs I want and put them into the scenes. It's always hard when you're doing a low-budget film, so it's great when you can get all the music you want to get.

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 get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.

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.