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Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.

Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you're interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It's a pastiche of all these things that deal with how you see the world.

Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.

As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.

Writing a film is like building a brick wall. You have a plan, and you have the blocks. Then, somebody says, 'I think we'll take this stone out of here and put it over there. And while we're at it, let's make this stone red and that stone green.'

If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.