When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?

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.

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

I do know that people tend to do their best work when they're challenged and stimulated by their peers.

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

We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is.

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.