I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.

You're always a little surprised when something really takes off.

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job.