You Have To Be Kind To People.

I Learned That As A Director, You're Around All These Talented People, So You Have This Window That All These Really Good Ideas Can Come In To Help Your Movie, So You're Crazy To Close Them. You Need To Be Inspiring People, Engaging People. There Are Lots Of People Who Are Really Good At Their Jobs But Might Not Know Or Feel Like They Want To Come Up To People And Get Them To Participate And Want To Do Their Best.

I'm Always Described As 'cocksure' Or 'with A Swagger,' And That Bears No Resemblance To Who I Feel Like Inside. I Feel Plagued By Insecurity.

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 Like Acting For Myself As A Director. I Act And I Know That I'll Have A Chance To Have Some Say In What Gets Used And That I'll Be Able To Give Myself Enough Takes And Be On The Same Page As Myself About How The Scene Should Play.

Directing Is Monumentally Complicated And It's A Function Of All The Time You Pay To It. I Think It Would Be Great To Do A Movie I'm Not In, I Could Just Eat Fritos And Just Say, 'yeah, It's Good!' Some Day.