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

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

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

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.

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.