Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.
I like to make films about how people survive living in the United States.
You can't just pill away injuries that go deep in someone. They don't just stop those feelings from existing.
In documentary, mostly, people are going to say untoward things; people are going to have gnarly beliefs. People aren't perfect.
I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.
I find it so hard to make films about my own region, but it could happen.
My producing partner and I were shown a novel we really liked. It was called 'My Abandonment' by Peter Rock, and we enjoyed reading it.
Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.
Emerging actors know there's a whole lot to learn each time they are spending with someone who's done a lot.
Sometimes I struggle with being American.
In Hollywood, only a female who's massively damaged is interesting.
I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.
You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
It's kind of a test when you read a novel thinking about its potential for the screen How does it play on your mind's screen?
Make your film for the least amount you can.
There has to be a continuation of the communal experience of filmgoing.
We need cultural awareness and a cooperative approach with other countries versus a dominating approach.
People need meeting places. You need places where ideas get exchanged and you see each other's faces once in a while.
There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving.
I'm a trudger.
What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell.
Social realism takes research.
I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.
It's funny your happiness is contingent on a bigger picture besides just yourself.
