Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.

My whole written history is one big lie! I mean, I can't even believe my history.

I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.

I've always been doing some sort of art. I started off, when I was very young, painting.

I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.

... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and then I make a shot. So generally, in [the] proof sheets, there are only three or four really concentrated efforts to take a photograph. It's not like a professional kind of person who sets it up so every photograph looks really cool.

Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.