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 like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

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.

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

The action stuff takes a long time but when you're there and you're doing it and you go into that take and you run and everything is blowing up around you and you're diving onto something it's actually incredibly thrilling and you feel like a kid again. Like a kid, who used to play and pretend all those things would happen and now they're actually happening.

Sometimes we all make relationships more complicated than they necessarily have to be.

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.