I was very sensitive, so when sensitivity has no place to go, it's often turned into anger or frustration.
For me, there's far too many close-ups in film. They're a television technique.
When we go to the cinema, we bring all of our preconceptions of actors with us.
If you keep your heart open you can meet people who change your life.
If you're working in close-ups, then an actor is only able to act with his head. I like an actor to act with their entire body.
The way that I deal with actors as a director is I just talk to them forever before we even arrive on set.
I feel very strongly as a writer and as a director it is not my job to crush the audience's imagination.
I always wanted to write and direct films for as long as I can remember.
I've always wanted to write, I've always wanted to direct. The conscious decision was always to not be an actor.
I don't even like getting my picture taken because I feel terrible about the way I look. I'm so self-conscious about things.
I'm writing, I'm directing, I'm editing, I'm mixing, I'm showrunning. There is a certain point where it's like, the work is the work.
We as a country, our lust for entertainment has sort of superseded our sense of self-preservation.
I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.
If you look at 'Network' or any kind of satire, it's fundamentally unemotional in some ways.
And the nature of split screen is a disconnect It's a line between two characters, two images, two realities.
Sobriety has a way of allowing a person to begin to realize that the things that you do have consequences for the people that love you.
I spent the majority of my teenage years in hospitals, rehabs and halfway houses.
There's always certain actors that are interested in certain things and other actors who aren't.
