I Like To Be In A Different

I Saw Leaving College As An Opportunity To Do Something Different With My Life. I Always Thought That Becoming An Academic Was Going To Be My Path.

We Think, "if I Have More Money, I Am More Valuable. If I Make More Money, I Am More Valuable." It's All Sort Of Wound Up With This Problem That Humans Have With Their Failure.

I'd Prefer Not To Act In The Film I'm Directing. I Think, Though, As An Actor, You Do Learn How To Turn Things On And Off Quickly And Kind Of Compartmentalize. You Learn To Accommodate The Camera And The Other Actors, To Notice Where The Boom Is And Where You Mark Is, And Be Able To Repeat Something A Few Times.

I Don't Really Think I Have The Personality. I Am Not Very External. I Don't Want To Dance On The Table And Do Impressions. So I Think That The Way I Approach It Is Really Loving Story. That's My First Love - The Words. The Words And The Story And How To Create Images. I Guess I Come At That As A Director. I Think That's Much More In My Personality To Be A Director, So That's Kind Of Informed My Acting.

Casting Is A Long Process For Me. I Take A Lot Of Time.