Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

When you're playing someone who really lived, you carry a burden, a burden to be accurate. But it's one that you have to let go of ultimately.

No one wants to be pretentious about what they do or take it seriously, because that is just weird.

There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.

Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

People used to be funny about approaching me, but now they seem to think I'm as sane as anyone who's done what I've done in movies can be.