I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

Growing up the way that I did - I grew up with a lot of cousins - you just have this imagination, and I love going and telling different stories. I'm a clown.