I've always had a fascination with iconoclastic women, and I wanted to tell a love story about two kids who have that kind of relationship. I've had that kind of relationship repeatedly in my life, with all these great women. What I love about them is that they don't seem afraid of the world.

My favorite part of directing is driving to the set every day and seeing all the trailers and realizing that everybody's there because I had an idea and decided to write it down; and the idea that people are there every day to solve a creative riddle.

I was a fat gay boy who who grew up in Oklahoma wanting to be a dancer.