There's something about being a teenager that's so sincere. Everything is more epic, like your first crush. I feel that it's not always portrayed very accurately.

I always like to keep the budget as small as possible just to have the most freedom.

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

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

I feel like the internet has encouraged people to look into things and try to find issuesthat because people have a lot of opinions. I think it's really important to encourage artistic freedom. I think if you inhibit that, that could be dangerous.

My parents were always encouraging of us being creative however we wanted to be. People say, "You didn't get pressured into having to be a director?" But it's hard to be around my dad and not be curious about filmmaking, because he thinks it's the ultimate medium.

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