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Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.

Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition.

I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

Directing is definitely something that is in my life for keeps, and the more I do it, the more I realize how much I want to learn and how much I have to give. And it kind of bolsters my acting - it enhances it in a really wonderful way that I wasn't expecting.

I love directing. It's where my heart is, and it's the way my mind works.

Music is the reason I'm doing movies; I do credit that. But acting is an escape route for me.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.