Yes, right now I do. Once we raise the money for the next project I’m going to very, very happily drop the producing hat. Truthfully, I probably won’t put it down for longer than the shoot and then I’ll probably pick it back up again. I think this will change for me when there's more recognition for my work and it’s easier to finance projects and distribute projects, and I’m not fighting to do that every single day. With independent filmmaking, that's something you sign on for. You can’t make an independent film and just expect, unless you are a hired director or a hired writer, to not have to live it, sweat it, bleed it – every day. I don’t know how quickly I will be able to forego that, but I do very much look forward to sort of overseeing things and then focusing on the writing/directing versus being so entrenched day to day on the other aspects of it. I'm looking forward to just shooting the next film.
Would you ever allow anyone else to direct your work, or would you ever direct anyone else's work?
Yes, both. I think that for me, in terms of someone else directing my work would probably come down to someone I’m so honored to have them interested that it would be such an honor that I’d let them do it. Or if I’d written something that, it’s not that I don’t love it, but I’d be more excited about my other project I’ve written and so it’s easier for me as a producer to say, "I wrote it, let’s get another director to direct it. I’m going to focus on this other one that’ s just a little bit closer to my heart." I'd like it to be a case-by-case situation while in the meantime, never giving up my writing/directing projects. That’s the ideal version of my life.
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