It's Really Hard To Be

I Remember The First Day I Was Looking At My Hands And I Thought About My Nails. People Wouldn't Really Be Paying Attention To That, But A Civil War Doctor - What Would They Be Doing With Their Nails? Would They Cut Them Really Low? And Dr. Burns Said, "no, They Would Let Them Grow Out So They Can Scoop Stuff Out. They Would Use Their Nails." So For A While I Let My Nails Grow. They Were Too Long. I Kept Stabbing Myself By Accident, So I Cut Them Down, But I Was Trying To Be Faithful To The Details.

You Can Say Something That Can Really Help And Actor And You Can Say Something That Can Really Get In The Way Of An Actor's Performance, Kind Of Cut Them Off From Their Instincts And Really Get Into Their Heads. And Every Actor's Different. Every Actor Requires Something Different. Being An Actor, For Me, Was The Greatest Training To Be A Writer And Director.

I Have Great People Surrounding Me And Helping Me Out. I'm Totally In Love With Directing Movies And I Hope To Do More Of It.

When I Go To Movies And I Love The Movie, It's Because It Feels Like It Articulated Something About How We're Living Now, And Also Gives Me Some Insight Into My Own Life. I Feel Actually Altered After Having Seen It.

I Learned To Choose My Battles. Sometimes I Let My Producer Deal With Something That I Didn't Want To Deal With.