I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.
It's always refreshing to step into another time.
I think certainly directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.
Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.
I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.