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

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.

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.

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.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.