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"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."
"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."
"Making films is like making stuff together as kids."
"I always like to keep the budget as small as possible just to have the most freedom."
"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."
"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 just try to do what I'm interested in and hope that some people will connect."
"When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually."
"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."
"I think I'm always drawn to projects that help me understand something about myself."
"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 definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives."
"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."
"My dad told me, 'Your movie's never as good as the dailies and never as bad as the rough cut."
"I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time."
"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."
"I always remember my dad saying, "No one makes a remake unless they are trying to make money; there is no reason for it." It was not an honorable thing to do."
"I try to always be open to what the actors want to try. I don't storyboard and try to be intuitive and open on the day of filming."
"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."