You have to be steadfast, and right now I'm on a stream train forward to make.

People do horrible things when they're young. There might be betrayal and there might be things that should be forgotten.

I understand and respect deeply that each project brings its own secret and wonderful gifts and happy accidents.

I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects. When you're directing something that's generally two years of your life, you have to understand that. If I'm going to pour that kind of love and energy and sweat and heartache, all that juju into something, I'm going to lean into my own projects before someone else's.

Part of what's cool about being an actor or being in this industry, frankly, is to be able to travel to distant lands. That's part of the deal. I always thought when I was growing up, "I wanna be an actor and go see the world.'

I wrote an entire movie [Man up] about how important I think voices are, so it was funny.

I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.