Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

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.

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.

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.

But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.