When you have a director who has work you can identify from the past, it gives you some reference point as to what their interpretation of the story might be, and how that might jibe, right or wrong, with how you see it. But with a first-time director, you don't really know where you're at.
Greg KinnearI can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.
Greg KinnearI don't think there's any connection between my journalism career and my film career. They are two totally different mediums and very different skills.
Greg Kinnear