When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.

Haiti kind of gets a hold of you.

I don't have any particular excitement about working with any specific director or actor at this point.

There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.

Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

There is no re-inventing the wheel.