I love working with people, and I love ideas coming to life, and I’m a bit of a control enthusiast. I’ve really enjoyed directing and learning and certainly learning how much I don’t know, but I’m not done wanting to work with great directors as a writer. Because you wouldn’t want to do it, and yet you put yourself in the place where it’s impossible to control. And so the whole thing becomes a kind of pitiless exposure of every weakness that you can possibly have, beginning with the fact that you can’t control. But the pitiless exposure of your weaknesses is the essence of directing, isn’t it?

Source: Los Angeles Times January 26, 2021 13:03 UTC