By The First Week Of Shooting, You

Well, I Certainly Was Exposed To And Learned To Appreciate The Work Of Great Directors Early On. As A Kid, My Mother Used To Take Me To See Really Interesting Arty Films In Los Angeles.

What The Digital Age Has Offered Us, In Terms Of Connectivity And Transparency, Is That All Of These People From Weird Places In The World Are All Talking To Each Other, At Four In The Morning, And Are Sharing Ideas. There's More Openness Than Has Ever Been Known, So That's A Good Thing.

I'm Interested In Directing Movies About Situations That I've Lived, So They Are Almost A Personal Essay About What I've Come To Believe In.

Boys Are Easy. I Mean, There Are Just A Lot Of Bruises When They're Young. With Boys, You Get A Lot Of Accidental Jabs In The Eye And Stepping On Your Feet, And Those Tantrums They Cause When They Don't Want To Leave The Toy Store.

Definitely, There's A Lot Of Trouble You Come Up Against When You're Acting And Directing, About Your Performance. Sometimes It's Hard To Be Objective About It. I Will Tend To Get Two Takes And Walk Away. I Don't Belabor It, And It's Important To Me To Have Someone Who Says, "you Know What? You Should Get Another One, And Maybe You Should Try It Like That".