Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

It's fun to discover things. I wouldn't want everything laid out, simply and too obviously.

With acting, if a friend asked me to be in a movie or TV show, there's a lot of things on my résumé I did without reading them or knowing what they were. I just said I'd do that because a friend wrote it, directed, produced, acted in it. With directing, I'm sticking to my guns, not that a lot of people are begging me to direct.

I learn things in a backward way. I learn all those limitations, and slowly my brain soaks them up, and if things go right, you just, in an organic way, translate your ideas into those templates. That's the way I perceive the process happening.

You can't guarantee that you'll make a great movie, but you can make a greater effort than I made at trying to see that the basics are there.

You say you're going to be the pope, become the pope.

If you surround me with darkness, suddenly, I am "somewhat fun."