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.

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It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.

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When you direct is the only time you get to have the world exactly how you want it. My movies are very close to what I set out to do. And I'm super-opinionated about what I do and don't like.

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motivational inspirational world

I like telling the story in a visual way. I don't like explaining a lot in dialogue.

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I think being mediocre and in the middle would be the worst. It's more interesting to get strong reactions, and to have the mixture of people who get it and the people who don't get it. And to invite a dialogue.

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strong people thinking

My movies are not about being, but becoming.

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becoming

The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever

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It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.

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goes-on memories thinking

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.

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important people thinking

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

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what-you-want want forget

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

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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.

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abandoned take-care care

You don't have to be loud. If you know what you want, people respect that.

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

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imagine trying way

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

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sucker love-story stories

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.

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being-real girl people

For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you.

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It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.

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I learned that from my dad: you put your heart into something, you have to protect it, what you're making.

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I never get myself in a situation where I don't have creative freedom.

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Making films is like making stuff together as kids.

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