There is a quote, “You can’t be what you can’t see.” For the longest time, my friends would ask me, “Do you ever want to direct?” I was like, “Direct? No!” I’m realizing now that I was living in this very narrow world of thinking of movies as being directed only by guys. Nobody had ever taught me about Ryan Gosling Has a European Doppelgänger and the Internet Is Losing ItOver the past few months of build-up to herdebut albumSour It's a really cool modern coming-of-age story about two best friends — Naomi and Ely — who grew up next door to each other in the same apartment building in New York City. They had a very co-dependent relationship. Naomi is hopelessly in love with Ely, but the only problem is he's gay. He ends up falling for her boyfriend. It's about how sometimes you have to grow apart to grow together in a new way," she tells us. “There was a level of digestibility that I had to tap into in order to do a blockbuster film,” he says. “I couldn’t get the nuance of the character because it had to appeal to such a vast audience. And so I felt like I wasn’t really doing what I set out to do at a young age, which was to embody and mirror humanity and story tell and create complex personalities.”