Julia Stiles (Chosen Family) spoke to Bleeding Cool about her directorial feature debut in Lionsgate's Wish You Were Here, casting & more.

Julia Stiles had long thought of making her feature directorial debut, but it took a special story to make it happen. The film follows the story of Charlotte (Isabelle Fuhrman), a woman whose life is forever altered after a whirlwind night with Adam (Mena Massoud).

Wish You Were Here' boasts a solid cast and memorable moments, but certain key moments need far greater development for the narrative to fully work.

Moviefone speaks with Julia Stiles about 'Wish You Were Here'. I've been wanting to direct for a really long time and was looking for the right story.

It always feels sort of mean to criticize art that comes from a genuinely good place and has an inarguably empathetic message, but I was certainly tested by Wish You Were Here, yet another maudlin terminal-illness romance that works really,