It's so hard to raise money for independent films and the fact of the matter is that the bigger my star or whatever is, as a result of doing bigger pictures, the easier it is for me to get money for my own projects.

The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.

The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.

You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.

Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make Star Wars, but I need to shift my career into the studio world. That's where my head was at when I thought of the original plot.

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.

I try not to be too plot-heavy and to balance the dramatic with the comedic.