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Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.

I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

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.

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

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.