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? ”