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.
I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time.
I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.
I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.
I've always written my own scripts, I really like doing everything from the beginning and taking it all the way through, I've probably learned that from my dad.
I just remember seventh grade as being really difficult, because there's nothing meaner than a girl at that age. You gang up on people, and it's traumatic. It wasn't so bad for me, but there's a woman I know who's still traumatized by junior high. At that age, everything seems like a huge deal, but of course that changes when you get older.
When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.
I always like to keep the budget as small as possible just to have the most freedom.
You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.
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.
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.
I just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect.
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.
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.
A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.
I always try to make the soundtrack a good CD on its own.
When I was working on the music for this I didn't want to just use pop songs as the score - most movies do it and I've done it before.
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.
My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut.
I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.
I like amateur things.
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.
More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces.
I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.
Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.
