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I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

I've learned one general thing in filmmaking: to work with one strong idea. One strong concept that pushes you to work in a certain way artistically.

I found filmmaking to be a very practical art form. It's about figuring out how to create within the very practical limitations/constraints of time, money, and large groups of collaborators.

I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.

I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.