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I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.

I wish I was making movies back in the days when John Ford made movies and you were a director under contract to a studio. John Ford had years when he made three movies in a year.

I consider myself a novice film actor.

I'm an actor's director.

I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

I went to film school, so I certainly know how to make things quickly and cheaply. But at the same time, I have the experience of working with Steve Starkey for three years. I watched him produce some gigantic movies.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.