CalArts was incredible for me. It's a school that I rave about and constantly want to give back to.
I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.
There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.
I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.
Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my first film. It doesn't matter what you know in your head and what you've been taught until you're there and doing it; it's a whole new ball game.
I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.
I love directing; it felt right to me when I did 'Flying Lessons'. It's something I will do again. Really, you can always be working and developing. That's something that's kind of ever constant.
If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.