 I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time. |
| I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times. |
| As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over. |
| I'm not interested in wasting money on a project. |
| People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that. |
| I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost. |
| Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way. |
| I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday. |
| The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors. |
| I was dissatisfied just being an actor. |
| I'm a control freak. Totally. |
| My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make. |
| I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging. |
| I never go overbudget on my movies. |
| I don't like to move the camera that much anyway. |
| I like to see how I can do it for less money. |
| But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half. |
