I Become Kind Of Obsessive About Research.

We Tell Specific Stories About Ourselves To Ourselves And We're All The Heroes Of Our Own Lives. But You Live Through Certain Experiences With Other People, And Sometimes They Have Very Different Takes On What Happened.

I Was Supposed To Go Out With This Girl, But The Plans Mixed Up Because I Was Working Late. So I Went To Her Apartment With A Flower. She Was Asleep, But I Really Wanted To See Her. I Figured I'd Be Like Romeo, And Climbed Up To Her Balcony And Gave Her A Rose. She Was Very Shocked. After That, It Was Over.

For Whatever Reason, I Have An Emotional Life That Wants To Come Out.

It's Like Low-budget Filmmaking - A Focus On Dialogue And Relationships Over Plot. Quirky. Improv.

I Was Being Generous. Gia Coppola Wasn't Even A Filmmaker At That Time, But I Asked Her To Do It, Because I Believed In Her As An Artist. And Because I Wanted A Woman's Take On The Material. The Book Palo Alto Is Very Male-centric, But Gia Carved Out A Bunch Of The Female Characters, And Brought Them To The Fore In The Movie. And The Project Was Richer For It.