Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.

I never did improv professionally, but that was certainly in my training as an actor. I like it.

I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.

Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.

It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting.

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.