I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

As soon as the actor steps into the role, you probably can cut 50% of the lines because there's a person there now. And what a person does with their eyes, with their mouth, with their hands, the way they walk into a room, you can probably cut half the scene.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.