At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves.

As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.

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

I've had the experience of seeing what makes life easier for an actor and for the crew, and what makes it feel bogged down and challenging. We're all really fortunate that we get to make our living as artists.

I would really like to focus on directing features, and then eventually take that skill set back to television. On features, you have more control. On television, the producers are the creative forces behind it. Directors come and go on television.

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.

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