My mom never pushed me into it. In fact, she didn't want me to do it all. This was my choice - my obligation. I was called to push people in the right direction.

The money is good, but the job is not always easy. It pulls a lot out of you when you hear things you don't want to hear, or see things you don't want to see.

The practice runs in my family. It's our culture. It's what we do.

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Film actors are, by nature, more complicated than stage actors.

We kept my middle schooler home from school for three days before we turned in our final draft because she was so mean and so brutal at editing out all the cheesy bits. She would roll her eyes and make fun of us, and it was what we needed.