I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire.

I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.

I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.

I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

We're still staring at TV screens, right? They're still monitors. But the way information is delivered is different. So it creates an interesting way of looking back at early films, because they're actually relevant in terms of the devices people are using. But the consideration, the debate, around those technologies was very different from what's being presented now.