I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

Having a kid, it makes you slow down; when you're walking with a toddler to pick up a leaf it can take a half hour. You've never spent that time looking at a leaf before, having that kind of interaction. So I think it does make you change the way you look things.

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

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

It bugs me when they have people my age [28] playing teenagers.

Generally I just pick music that I like. That's the part I really enjoy: When I get permission for the songs I want and put them into the scenes. It's always hard when you're doing a low-budget film, so it's great when you can get all the music you want to get.