I'm a control freak. Totally.
I would rather just do the things I want to do.
My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.
But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half.
I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.
I was dissatisfied just being an actor.
You gotta make the movie you want to make.
As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.
I would love to have my hair back and to be two inches taller - I am 5 ft. 8 in.
I don't consider myself a mean person. I hope I'm not.
The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.
My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.
I make time to write.
The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.
I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.
It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.
I never go overbudget on my movies.
I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.
You don't want to watch people who are really awful. That's the goal whenever you're playing someone who's a little twisted. One of the important aspects of this is we just don't know who he is. Or who she is. And we find out along the way.
