A fantastic actor in a scene that's just closed off will be good. But when working with a director who knows little tricks - correct music, slowly pushing in - that stunning performance will somehow become even better. I've always seen it as a symbiotic relationship.

I live in my own bubble. I'm in Gublerland.

I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional