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When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else.

Making a movie is like an accelerated version of growing up with someone. You spend so many hours a day with each other, and you're putting your heart into this same effort.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

People are goofy about the movie business, so you end up counting on friends you knew before you were successful. It is harder to make new friends because you are a little more cautious.

You don't always just have to do an indie movie to feel like you're controlling it with a few people that you really have connected with, creatively. You can do it on a bigger scale.

I was obsessed with movies, and it ended up being the tool with which I could make friends. Because I was too painfully shy in other circumstances, I would say, 'Hey, do you want to make a movie?' And that's how I made friends, and it was also my escape.

After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.

When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.

On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.

Some movies you fall a step behind, and some you stay in the same place, make the same choices. And then sometimes there are people who know more than you but show you, and that's the maximum you can hope for - doing that with someone who says, 'I like you for what you are, and I want you to be in my picture.'