On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.

I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

On every movie I’ve done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don’t envy them, at all.

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.

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.