All That Back-story Stuff Doesn't Help. What

I'm Drawn To A Lot Of First-time Directors. One Of The Great Common Denominators In These Small Independent Films Is That There's A Person, Or Two People, Who Have An Absolutely Monomaniacal Passion To Get These Films Made. That's What Makes Them Happen. Sometimes, It Takes Years And Years To Finally Get It Done, But By Never Backing Down, By Never Giving Up, They Get These Films To The Screen By Hook Or By Crook.

I've Discovered That I Can't Trust The Ratings Board At All, Because They Have - To My Mind - A Perverted Point Of View About What's Appropriate For Children. They Think That If You See Any Part Of A Male Or Female Anatomy, We Have To Protect Children From It, Which Is Not True, And They Think Almost Any Level Of Violence Is Okay For Children, Which Is Absolutely Not True... They're Really Off The Mark.

I've Always Felt It's The Directors Purview To Say What; It's The Actor's Purview To Say How. It's Not Good For An Actor To Have The Big Picture In Mind - It Bollocks You Up. An Actor's Purview Is The Tiny Little... We Measure Our Performance In Seconds.

Every Scene Has Two People Who Want Two Different Things, So There's Conflict In Every Scene. You've Got To Duke It Out, And You've Got To Get The Other Person To Change His Or Her Mind And Do It Your Way.

Sometimes, Directors Are Afraid To Stop Shooting, Because The Second You Stop And Say, "we Got It," And Move On, You'll Never Get Another Chance. And They're Terrified To Get In The Cutting Room And Not Be Happy. So They Just Keep Shooting.