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

My father is so in love with making movies, and he'sso charismatic about it, that it's hard to be around him withoutwanting to make movies.

I always try to make the soundtrack a good CD on its own.

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

Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.

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.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.