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"We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere."
"Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven."
"I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy."
"More actors in action movies should be gangly because that way it's believable when they move through tight spaces."
"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."
"I like amateur things."
"I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films."
"I think anything you do that's different, that doesn't take the typical approach, invites differing opinions."
"I always try to make the soundtrack a good CD on its own."
"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."
"It bugs me when they have people my age [28] playing teenagers."
"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."
"Generally I just pick music that I like. That's the part I really enjoy: When I get permission for the songs I want and put them into the scenes. It's always hard when you're doing a low-budget film, so it's great when you can get all the music you want to get."
"I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it."