One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.

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

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.

Confidence is preparation in action.

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

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