Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

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].

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.

In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.

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.