As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

I'm interested in how people shoot because I have a very specific way of shooting and I'm fascinated by the way other people shoot films, particularly if they're smart and talented.