Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

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

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

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

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

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.

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.