Being a senior, it's sort of 'the role,' as everybody calls it. You sort of have to take it upon yourself to carry the team. I feel that when a senior steps up, everyone steps up with them.

From freshman to senior is totally different. Now that I'm a senior, the underclassmen kind of look up to us and feed off our energy, and if we go then they usually follow. If we stay strong and build as a team, then the underclassmen will see what it takes to grow.

I think playing together so long you just have a feel of what the other guys are going to do. Over our high school careers, some of us played at younger age as freshmen or sophomores, but we've always pushed each other.

One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.