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

It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

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.

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

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.

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