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

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.

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

I just remember seventh grade as being really difficult, because there's nothing meaner than a girl at that age. You gang up on people, and it's traumatic. It wasn't so bad for me, but there's a woman I know who's still traumatized by junior high. At that age, everything seems like a huge deal, but of course that changes when you get older.

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

I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.

A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.