I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.
Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard.
I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.
I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.
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.
Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.
I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.
Early in my career, people wanted to pigeonhole me as the bad guy because I'm of Italian-American descent, which they often were when I started out. You have to fight against it. One of the things that helps is the ability to do comedy.
3D movie is tedious, its tedious for everybody, it's hard for the crew, it's hard for the actors. It adds more time. It's more technically complicated, so that just adds more time and takes a little more time away from he acting and that's kind of frustrating but to say "I'll never do 3D again" that doesn't make any sense.
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.
So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.
And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.
I'm pretty much a character-driven film director and my movies are smaller. I don't do a lot of coverage. I use lots of master shots.
I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.
I'm interested in how people shoot because I have a very specific way of shooting and I'm fascinated by the way other people shoot films, particularly if they're smart and talented.
I don't like things about serial killers. There's so much serial killer information out there in documentaries constantly. A lot of it's just sort of gratuitous or it's almost like pornographic, really. There's no reason for it being shown.
This is the funny thing about Skype. No one is really looking into the camera. People always looking down because they're looking at the image. You wish the camera was there in the center.
I'm a control freak. Totally.
Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.
I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.
I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.
I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.
I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.
I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.
I never go overbudget on my movies.
