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, 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.
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.
I've directed a film set in the '50s.
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 wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.
The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors.
It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.
Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.
I never go overbudget on my movies.
I had already made, like, 25 movies, playing a variety of roles, and it was a very frustrating time, ... I really couldn't get a job, and the only jobs I could get were, like, you know, these bit parts playing mobsters.
I was dissatisfied just being an actor.
I hope that a younger generation will start to watch a movie like this and start to better understand a slower pace in a truly cinematic way.
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.
You gotta make the movie you want to make.
Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.
I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.
But I'd shot enough independent films as an actor, one as a director. I knew that you have to be very specific when you're shooting a period picture.
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