I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming.

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 think being mediocre and in the middle would be the worst. It's more interesting to get strong reactions, and to have the mixture of people who get it and the people who don't get it. And to invite a dialogue.

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

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

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

We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.