What's great is when you're working with somebody with whom you have a connection, it's exciting because there's a shorthand and you trust each other and you have a good time together on the set and so you can go a little farther than you might normally because you're with somebody that you trust.

But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.

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

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.

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

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.