Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

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.

If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.

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