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One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

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.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.

It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

Because I've made a film with such an amazing director as Tarantino, I'm much more conscious of working with good directors from now on, so that's what's important to me. I don't really care about making a big movie - I just want to make good ones.