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Hart: I really, really always wanted to be a director. So when I started, for me, it was like really fulfilling a dream. Acting was something that I kind of got into accidentally when I was about 19 years old. I was discovered at an open house at the American Film Institute, because I wanted to go to film school, and this woman came up to me and asked me my name. And a couple of months later I got a call from Paramount and six months after that, I was playing opposite George C. Scott in this Hemingway movie called Islands in the Stream. So it took me about 16 years to get behind the camera, but when I started directing, after I directed PCU and High School High, I thought if I could continue doing this, that's a pretty good deal for me.
Those movies, quite frankly, didn't hit the number that studios need to show their shareholders in order to hire you again and I found myself having to reinvent myself as a filmmaker. So I had various projects in development that took a nosedive and then I had another movie that was good to go and that fell apart. Then I got this movie made, but in the interim I went back into acting and did some pieces, but I had taken several years off from acting because I wanted to be taken seriously as a director. And then I started missing acting. And getting back into it now, especially after I've had years away from it, it's much more fun now. I also think that for a man once you grow into yourself the words that come out of your mouth fit in your body better as you mature. I find that that has been a really interesting process. It makes the work a lot more pleasurable, I have to admit.
Nads: Thanks again for taking the time today! I look forward to watching the rest of the series!
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