I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

I think everybody has a little bit of an asshole inside of them.

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.

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.