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.

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

Nothing is worse for me, as an actor, than when I walk on a set and the director goes, "Okay, you're going to be standing here, the other person is going to be standing here, and you're going to move to there and then do the scene." That doesn't help actors.

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'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

One of the greatest things I've learned, as an actor, was how to talk to actors.

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.