'The Movie Should Be About You': 'Babysitter' Director on Why the First Feature is its Own Genre

"If I could make this film again, I would make it much more explicit. I would give less of a f*ck about pissing people off or being politically incorrect."

Babysitter, which premiered at SXSW last year and was just released on iTunes and Amazon, is an exposé on the chaos of middle-class life alongside an unusual sexual awakening—Max (Max Burkholder), a confused kid in high school, falls in love with his babysitter.

No Film School interviewed writer/director Morgan Krantz twice: once just after his SXSW 2015 premiere and once a couple weeks before his May 3rd VOD release. Below, we juxtapose some of Krantz's answers to get a sense of the perceptions and lessons that have calcified over time. Krantz also talks about how he learned to embrace the personal nature of his storytelling.

NFS: This feels like a very personal story. How do you approach that subject matter without it feeling overly diaristic?

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