I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

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.

It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

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

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

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