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.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

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.

When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.

I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself.