I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it. It allows you to really appreciate the hand of the filmmaker.

I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn’t have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they’re young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don’t want to leave the toy store.

My mom was always late. It drove me crazy as a child. So I’m always on time – or early.

I’m a technician. I don’t go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.

I’d like to be Dakota Fanning when I get young.

I conducted a bunch of interviews for Interview magazine. They actually paid me. I think I was probably 18 or 19. I was in college and I remember feeling, like, “Wow.” I had a real job, and they paid me money, and it was exciting.

As I’ve said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.

I don’t know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

I don’t find acting and directing schizophrenic in any way. I find it completely easy to move between the two.