I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

I make time to write.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.

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.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

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.

The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.