Directing is something that I'd been wanting and hoping to do, as I've grown into myself.

I already love acting and I love actors, so being able to communicate with actors and to bring performances out of them, and to tell a story and aid them, is really exciting for me.

If you felt like you've done the best thing you could possibly ever do, it's probably time to hang up your spurs because there's not much else to do.

Having been an actor, I always want to leave room for the actors to find their comfort zone, so I don't like to be too rigid in how I plan my shots. It's different if you have weeks to rehearse and you can rehearse on your sets or in your locations and you can plan that out with your actors, but in modern independent filmmaking, you don't really have that time. You have to have a certain level of improvisation.

I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career.

Directing is something that I'd been wanting and hoping to do, as I've grown into myself.

The beauty of every experience you have is that hopefully you'll learn something from it.