There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.

Other people have worked with big studios and maintained control over their movies. I see no reason why it wouldn't work for me.

A film set becomes its own family anyway, and all family dynamics come out during a shoot. The trick is hiring people who know how to handle that.

I've always liked working with friends or, you know, people I have outside relationships with.

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

Nothing that I've turned down do I feel like I should have done. Because I've generated everything I've done, I've never really considered doing something that I haven't originated myself. There are definitely things that I've been brought that someone else made good movies out of. But it's not a path I've followed, so I don't have regret.

How you start the movie is critical. And how often you feel that there's no reason for how it's starting.