You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.

I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity.

When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and reading everything, and there's a maxim about film being a visual medium, and so you need to make, in a sense, a silent movie and layer on dialogue.

When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through a rack of clothes, somehow that piece of clothing that you had so much fun designing speaks to her she responds to it and buys it. I believe you can actually transfer that energy to material things as you're creating them.

You have to be passionate, you have to be engaged and you have to be contributing to the world.

A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you.

In my adult life I've understood that if I put an enormous amount of love and honesty into something, usually that shows in the end.