Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

If you find yourself in a movie that you have questions about, it's not a compromise to your integrity.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.

When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view.

What you get is what you get. What you do with what you get, that’s more the point.