You Can't Control Everything That Comes To

When I Think About Directing A Film, The Thing That Stops Me Short Is Wondering If I'm A Natural At It The Way I Think You, And Pta, And Fincher Are Born Directors. Maybe Some People's Talent Is In Understanding The Ways That Film Communicates, Without Dialogue, Without Plot.

As We Say In The Sewer, Time And Tide Wait For No Man.

I Remember As A Kid Having The Offer Of A Scholarship, That It Was Going To Be Like Going To Mars, And Deciding To Stay In My Public School.

What We Set Out To Do With This Movie [leaves Of Grass] Was To Create Something That Was Funny And Serious And Had Large Tonal Ambitions. A Movie That Could Be Poignant And Funny, And Suddenly Quite Violent. To Have A Character Utterly Sideswiped, And To Learn That Life Is About Balance.

I'm An Actor, And, Beyond That, The Thing I Do Most Compulsively Is Writing. So I Come At It Very Much From This Sense Of Character. I Get Interested In People. And I Feel Confident In My Capacity To Absorb And Manifest The Characteristics Of People. I Have A Real Auditory Hang-up For Dialogue; Re-creating The Way People Talk Really Is An Addiction In My Brain.