Chris Doubek

A lot of those early indie movies - 'Smoke Signals,' 'Eat Drink Man Woman,' 'Boyz n the Hood' - there was a different aesthetic; everyone was telling stories that were like, 'This is new and different. Let's do it.'

I think if someone were to ask me to put in one sentence what it is that I do, I would say that I try to be in action more than in words.

With any film, you're doing basically the same thing. You're trying to translate ideas into action.

Jack Lemmon always said you can't learn how to act without doing theatre, and I agree with that. Because anyone can do a character for a take, but can you do one for 40 minutes at a time?