Sometimes if you have financial restraints, it's a benefit. It forces you to come up with a more creative way.

The director respects what they've hired you for and chosen you for: to do the part and respect what you're doing.

You don't just play a part. You've got to earn the right to play it.

Feeling a little bit alive is a lot better than just waiting to die.

It's a very stressful thing, directing a movie. You have the budget, you have the schedule, you are in certain confines, and you have everybody giving you advice about what to do.

As I get older, I think that things have been pre-determined for me, whether I liked it or wanted it, wished for it, whatever, way before in some way. And with others, you do have a choice that you can change. And that choice that you make is still part of this grand scheme.

When I think of a good restaurant, it's where the food has been consistent; there's always a consistency.