In high school, I didn't always relate to my friends. I was more of a spectator.
I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.
I get to collaborate and tell stories with moving photographs.
I have a lot of game apps I need to delete.
If I were to save one possession in a fire, it would have to be my dad's camera, an old, broken Nikon. I always keep it with me - his personal things mean a lot.
I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.
I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.
I've been going to the same person for haircuts since I was thirteen.
I remember people - not my family - always asking, 'Oh, so are you going to make movies when you're older?' I felt pressured, and that always kind of deterred me.
I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.
It was kind of intimidating to make a feature without that much experience.
Most movies use older actors, but I thought, if I could just put kids on camera and get them to be themselves, what could be easier?
Once I found these sticker things for your nails - Sally Hansen - those were really fun to do. They're really fun to do when you're bored, and it's better than painting your nails because you don't mess up. It looks really good, very professional. I tried a zebra one that was really pretty, but I always get a little bored of it.
I'm always really impressed when a movie can function like a novel does - that's so hard to do.
Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.
In Italy, there are a lot of Coppolas - it's like being called Jones. No one really notices.
I love my family's films.
Friends would ask, 'Have you seen 'The Godfather?' and I'd be like, 'No.'
It's great because all of my friends from elementary school are still my closest friends.
In California, where you're allowed to drive at 16, you get so much freedom with that. It's a freedom to get outside of your parents' house and to do bad things.
