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I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

I loved cinema while growing up and, for the longest time, wanted to be a director.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films are markers of where I am in life, where I am in my head. So that's what I'm working on, and I try to keep things in proportion - life and filmmaking. One feeds into the other.

I learned that you have to say that you're a filmmaker. You're not a screenwriter; you're not a director for hire. You've got to take charge. You're a filmmaker, and you're going to make a film.