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When You Do Improv, You're Everything. You're A Performer, Writer, And Director, Because You're Moving The Scene In The Direction You Want It To Go, You're Making It Up As You Go, And You're Acting It. You're All Of Those Things, So I Always Viewed Myself That Way. And With The Films I've Done, I've Written On Them, I've Acted In Some Of Them. And Even Ones I Haven't Acted In, I've Acted Them Out Just To Be Sure Another Actor Can Do Them.

I Make The Joke, All The Time, That If You Have The Word "man" And A Number In The Title, Like Batman 2, Spider-man 2 Or Iron Man 12, You'll Get It Made. The Kind Of Movies I Make, Studios Don't Make Them. I've Made A Lot Of Movies, And At Castle Rock, We've Made 125 Movies. None Of Them Get Made At A Studio. I've Got To Scrounge Around For Money, Every Time. I Just Like To Tell Stories. I'm A Storyteller, So I Want The Most People To See It.

The Script Is Like Music To Me. I Approach It Like It's A Musical Piece And I Hear How It's Supposed To Sound When People Say The Words. There's Rhythms And There's Intonations And Things, And So, When Somebody Comes In And Hits The Notes That I Hear, I Go Okay. Or, They Come Close Enough, And Then I'll Say "well How About You Try It Like This?" And If They Have A Good Ear And They Can Pick It Up, Then I Think Okay, They've Got It.

Usually, I Have In Mind What I Want To Do. I Shoot Pretty Economically, So I'm Not Shooting Tons Of Stuff That I Could Change, All That Much. I'll Cut Something Or Add A Little Something Back, But Not Too Much. This Is Maybe The Producer Part Of Me, But I'm Always Worried About The Budget, So I Shoot What I Know I Need To Shoot For The Film.

I Think For Every Parent, They Know Their Kids Better Than Anybody Else, And They Have To Just Trust Their Own Instincts.