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.

I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.

I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but I knew I wanted to do something in the visual arts. And I'd always been around my dad's film sets, so the interest was there. But I didn't have the guts to say, "I want to be a director," especially coming from that family.

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.

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 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.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see