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There are plenty of writers who are going to become a director after their next job, but no one will believe you're a director unless you believe it.

I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.

If a director is really a director, I think he's interested in more than one thing.

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.

The director is the ultimate creative arbiter of what's going to happen. And as a director myself, you really appreciate collaborating with people who are trying to help you find what you need and what you want.

I don't even know if I can call myself a director.

That's the fun part about being a director. You get to say, 'Oh, now that I'm in charge, I can try and cast whoever I want.' They can always say no, but that's okay.

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Whatever it takes, the job of the director is to be the leader and to get your actors where they need to go. That's a philosophy that I have.