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.

Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.

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

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.

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

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.