I've never acted before in a movie I've directed. This felt like the time to do it just because the " Leaves of Grass" movie itself is so much of a platform for the lead actor. It's really written for an exciting performance and it really depends on the audience watching an extraordinary actor having a great time pulling off this feat. It makes sense to me as a director to act in support of that.

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

I wish I were more musically gifted, more intuitive in playing instruments.

I'm not particularly precious about the theatrical experience any more.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

See, I don't get the sense that you need to direct at all. Sometimes I get the opposite sensation from you, that you're like, "I really should go do something else." But then you are drawn back in by a particular story, like a hangnail in the brain.