Adolescence Is A Tough One To Be

I Absolutely Love Religions And The Rituals. Even Though I Don't Believe In God, We Celebrate Pretty Much Every Religion In Our Family With The Kids.

My Mom Was Always Late. It Drove Me Crazy As A Child. So I'm Always On Time - Or Early.

I Don't Know If You've Ever Seen Some Of The Sidney Lumet Movies, Like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] Or Network [1976]. They're Real Events That Happen In Real Time, And There Are All Of These Different Characters Experiencing The Same Thing In Different Parts Of The Movie ... I Am So Bad At Explaining My Films. But It's In The World Of Finance And The World Of Media, And How They Connect. It Was A Big Undertaking. A Big, Mainstream Movie, Which Stars Julia Roberts And George Clooney. But For Me, It's Really Just A Small Story About Character And People.

It's A Skill That People Are Born With. Either You're A Focuser Or You're A Multitasky Person. I Am A Full-focus Person.

I'd Prefer Not To Act In The Film I'm Directing. I Think, Though, As An Actor, You Do Learn How To Turn Things On And Off Quickly And Kind Of Compartmentalize. You Learn To Accommodate The Camera And The Other Actors, To Notice Where The Boom Is And Where You Mark Is, And Be Able To Repeat Something A Few Times.