- There was a written script. She worte the dialogue based on her experiences, things heard and seen, and memories.
- Her family acted in other of her films, so she knew how they would play.
- Use 1 camera for most scenes. Used only one or two angles, but took her time to find the best angle.
- She treats the film as a fiction - never thought about it as a documentary. Wrote the charcters based on real people.
- During shooting didn't ask actors to remember dialogue line by line, but allowed them to improvise.
- Says documentary is a recording of something actually happening, but she tried to re-create the past.
- Film represents moments which moments which touched her.
- Desired to create memory.
- They recorded ambient sounds in the flat, then tried to re-create sounds she remembers hearing from home.
- To represent memories, she did not want to use images, but conversations.
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