I'd prefer not to act in the film I'm directing. I think, though, as an actor, you do learn how to turn things on and off quickly and kind of compartmentalize. You learn to accommodate the camera and the other actors, to notice where the boom is and where you mark is, and be able to repeat something a few times.

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

I'm really not a clothes person. To me, that's just work. It's the thing I hate to do the most. I don't want to be judged in that way.

Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock do romantic comedies. I do dark dramas. I do these movies well.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.