I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

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.

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

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.

My movies are not about being, but becoming.

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.