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When you shoot an independent movie you have a very limited amount of time, and you don't want to be that actor, when a poor director is trying to get through a movie, that you're asking at every second to discuss performance.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.

With all my films, the pace is not very fast, and so people get bored with them and comment that they're just people talking in rooms and all that.

In theater, you get to rehearse several weeks, you memorize everything, and by the time you open, you know what the play is. In film, it's almost the opposite. You do your work on your own and maybe have a couple of minutes to rehearse. When the camera rolls, you generally don't know what's going to happen.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.

Honestly, I guess if you looked at my CV, I've been doing independent movies since I started. I think that I kind of took a few steps back from Hollywood as soon as it all started to come my way because I wasn't quite ready for the attention.