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I wanted to make a film that was sophisticated and emotional, but for a wider audience.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

I actually have great respect for the professionals on both sides, journalism designers in the fashion industry, and I wanted to make a movie that celebrated what they did as much as poke fun at the challenges of their lives.

I live my life pretty emotionally, for better and for worse. I'm pretty thin-skinned and transparent. I lead with my heart, and I wanted to make a movie that did the same.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

I always wanted to be in movies.

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing... I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.