If I'm directing actors, I learn about acting that way. If I'm acting, I learn about directing that way. Producing is just something that's come about because there's projects I find interesting that I would like to help get done.

Success isn't what makes you happy. It really isn't. Success is doing what makes you happy and doing good work and hopefully having a fruitful life. If I've felt like I've done good work, that makes me happy. The success part of it is all gravy.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

You can look at anything as a cult. Churches are cults in their own way.

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.