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Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has.

As an actor, you don't have control over what you do, whom you work with.

One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.

If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.

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.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

I always believe that one can't interfere in another's work. Once I start work on any film, I surrender myself completely and blindly follow the director.

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.