People Are Always Surprised When I Say

As An Actor, I'm Always Playing Solitary Characters. But As A Director, I'm Always Making Ensemble Movies, Which Focus On Lots Of People's Lives And How They Intertwine.

Interestingly, When You Do Films, Sometimes You Have Conscious Reasons, Things That You Were Looking For, Or Stuff That You Were Trying To Do. And Then, You See The Film And You Think, "wow, It Ended Up Being Something Totally Different!"

I Had A Prodigious Life, Living In A Grown-up World When I Was A Child. But I Think My Abilities Were About Perceptiveness, And They Were About Examining Psychology And Examining People And Relationships.

I'd Like To Work More As A Director. It's Distracting Being An Actor, Because - There's A Lot Of Reasons. You Find Out You're Going To Work About Six Months Before You Start Shooting, And Then There's Prep And There's Post Afterward, And There's Stuff To Do, And Then Suddenly You've Gone A Year Without Directing. There's A Part Of Me That Has To Not Be Tempted By That In Order To Commit More To The Directing. Honestly, The Big Reason For Me To Act Is To Observe Other Directors And Learn From Them. That Seems To Be The Biggest Draw.

I Make Movies About People In Spiritual Crisis Because It's A Way For Me To Spend The Time, The Energy, The Focus And The Obsession To Come To Terms With My Own Spiritual Crisis.