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.

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.

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.

There's something about being a teenager that's so sincere. Everything is more epic, like your first crush. I feel that it's not always portrayed very accurately.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

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