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

It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

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

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.

I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it." It was not an honorable thing to do.

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