I Didn't Work Very Much

I'd Prefer Not To Act In The Film I'm Directing. I Think, Though, As An Actor, You Do Learn How To Turn Things On And Off Quickly And Kind Of Compartmentalize. You Learn To Accommodate The Camera And The Other Actors, To Notice Where The Boom Is And Where You Mark Is, And Be Able To Repeat Something A Few Times.

I Think There Is Something To Being Curious About Your Choices, But Not Wanting To Kind Of Pierce The Bubble Of Them, Because It Takes Away From The Act Of Discovering.

Actors Become Actors Because They Loved Entertaining Their Family By Putting On The Lampshade And Dancing Around As A Kid, ... That's Not My Personality. For Me, The Fun Part Of Making Movies Is Seeing It As A Director Sees It. I Like The Architecture Of Movies. I Like Knowing What's Coming And Working To Set That Up.

The Movies I Made When I Was 14 Or 15, I Have A Hard Time Looking At Those. Those Were The Awkward Years. I Don't Know If Anybody Can Look At Something They Did When They Were 14 And Not Wince.

I Was One Of Those Avid Moviegoers As A Kid, And We Didn't Have Video, So We Went To See Everything Five Times. I Went To See Every Foreign Film Playing In My Town. As Times Went On, I Watched A Lot Less Films. I Have A Different Film School Now. My Film School Now Is My Life Experience.