As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.
Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.
Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were when I started out. You have to fight against it. One of the things that helps is the ability to do comedy.