If I stay alert, then I can challenge myself, and by challenging myself, that helps me to stay alive and to hopefully take something away from the experience.

I just have a respect for my audience. That seems to be pretty logical.

You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

Establishing what the vision is and being able to stick to it is the job, and everyone should be on the same page, going in. With that said, first-time director or not, you never know what you're going to get.

Most actors have a process that they can go through, that they rely on, or that they've discovered, and that can evolve from project to project.

I don't like to stick to one formula. That gets boring. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.