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

I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.

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

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.

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've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

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