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

I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early 80s.

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.

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].

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