You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

I've had weird, weird acting jobs. Low-budget filmmaking where you find yourself in really bizarre places.

I don't like yelling insults at someone who's never done anything to me.

When you're shooting at 9 A.M. at a club, you have to use all of your acting skills.

I think there's a sort of satisfaction in defying people's expectations.

The nice thing about a documentary, I think, is that so much of it is editing, too. You sort of get to keep making decisions. It's not as much like when you do a narrative, fictional piece, and you have a certain number of shooting days, and you're like, "Well, that's what it is." You can continue to seek out more photographs or try to find more footage. The genre gives you the ability to keep working on it, which is great for a first-time director.

As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.