I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.

I love working with actors. I love to see what they're going to do. There's just something very thrilling and satisfying with being involved with something, all the way through the process [making movie].

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.

When you're directing, I feel like I'm playing all the parts, without the make-up. I really get into the heads of the characters.

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.