I'm Trying To Make People Feel Welcome

They Say Money Can't Buy Happiness? Look At The Smile On My Face. Ear To Ear, Baby!

I Want To Thank My Wife Who I Don't Normally Usually Associate With Iran. I Want To Thank You For Working On Our Marriage For 10 Christmases. It's Good. It Is Work, But It's The Best Kind Of Work, And There's No One I'd Rather Work With!

It's Been Reinforced To Me, And It's A Little Cliche, But I've Learned That You Can't Make A Movie That Even Works, Much Less That's Good, Without Really Good Writing And Really Good Acting. That Lesson Has Led Me To Not Be Distracted, So Much, By The Other Stuff Going On In Filmmaking And To Focus On The Essence Of A Story, And The Words And The Events And The Way That Those Are Interpreted By The Actors. That Philosophy Has Taken Me To A Place That I Really Like.

I Really Think That Everybody Would Like To Be An Actor. Why Wouldn't They? It's Great Work If You Can Get It. The One Thing That Prevents Most People From Saying, 'i'm Just Gonna Go To Hollywood!' Is That It Seems Unrealistic.

I Grew Up In A Home Environment Where I Wasn't Getting Esteem For Anything I Did.