Jay Roach

I directed two videos.

One was based on the Barbra Streisand song, I Am a Woman in Love, and the other one was based on My Funny Valentine.

You know, I worked with her on Meet the Pockers later, and if I had remembered, I would have embarrassed myself and told her that I did that video.

I'm sure those were my first paid gigs directing anything for sure.

So it might have been kind of steps across that threshold because I really never considered myself a director until I just started doing it.

Directing actors as a young person, as a new person, is probably the most intimidating thing.

I knew about camera, I knew about sound and editing and everything else, but I hadn't really worked with actors that much.

So it also gave me a chance to just try that.

You have to develop a little bit of tolerance for misery when you make movies.

I mean, it's obviously a lucky thing to get to do, but there's never enough budget.

There's never enough time.

You're always trying to do something, you know, again, that may exceed your resources and exceed your own capabilities.

So it was an accidental film school in a way.

It was an accidental opportunity that turned out to be, you know, good for everybody involved.