If someone doesn't believe enough in your product to put money in to it, then you should rethink how good the product is.

If I'm going to do something, I really put everything into it and I want it to mean something to me.

I think the other honest attraction was that I just grew up loving watching TV and loving watching film, and there's so many directors and actors that I dreamed of working with, I just really wanted to take a crack at it and see if I could ever work with some of those.

Directing takes a lot longer than acting. This was about seven years in development, and then two and a half years with pre-production, production, post and now the release. Not that I have people banging on my door to star in movies, but it takes me out of the acting game for a longer chunk of time.

I'm fiercely loyal to my friends, and I really cherish my friendships.

There is a danger, if you cast someone who is 18, 19 or 20 to play 14 or 15, that very subtly, almost unconsciously, the audience is, "Oh, this isn't so bad."

I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.