An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.

It's not about an opening weekend. It's about a career, building a set of films you're proud of. Period.

I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.

Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.

I rarely tell anybody what they should be doing with their life.

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.