Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Interestingly, when you do films, sometimes you have conscious reasons, things that you were looking for, or stuff that you were trying to do. And then, you see the film and you think, "Wow, it ended up being something totally different!"

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

If I fail, at least I will have failed my way.

I don't find acting and directing schizophrenic, in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.

I'd like to work more as a director. It's distracting being an actor, because - there's a lot of reasons. You find out you're going to work about six months before you start shooting, and then there's prep and there's post afterward, and there's stuff to do, and then suddenly you've gone a year without directing. There's a part of me that has to not be tempted by that in order to commit more to the directing. Honestly, the big reason for me to act is to observe other directors and learn from them. That seems to be the biggest draw.