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My Film School Is Making Movies. But, I Do Think That Being An Actor Has Served Me Immensely, As Both A Writer And Director, In Terms Of Knowing What Is Playable And What Will Be Fun To Play, For Actors, And Also How To Communicate To Actors On Set, And Not Screw Them Up And Get Them In Their Head.

You Can Say Something That Can Really Help And Actor And You Can Say Something That Can Really Get In The Way Of An Actor's Performance, Kind Of Cut Them Off From Their Instincts And Really Get Into Their Heads. And Every Actor's Different. Every Actor Requires Something Different. Being An Actor, For Me, Was The Greatest Training To Be A Writer And Director.

An Obsessive Attention To The News, I've Realized, Only Serves To Paint A Picture Of The World As A Throbbing Blob Of Dysfunction, Most News Falling Somewhere On A Scale From Disappointing To Calamitous.

I Love Watching All Sorts Of Different Types Of Movies, But That Doesn't Mean They're Necessarily Movies I Want To Be Making. I'm Not Sitting Around Saying, "man, I'd Really Love To Direct A Western." That's Just Not Something I'm Probably Going To Do. But, I'm Just Looking To Work On Things That Both Feel Professionally Exciting And Personally Relevant.

The Reflexive Allergy To L.a. That A Lot Of New Yorkers Have, I Feel Like It's Kind Of Nonsense.