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 never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera.

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

Making films is like making stuff together as kids.

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

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

I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.