I Don't Flatter Myself - I'm Not

Sometimes We Don't See Certain Things Until We're Ready To See Them In A Certain Way.

What We Set Out To Do With This Movie [leaves Of Grass] Was To Create Something That Was Funny And Serious And Had Large Tonal Ambitions. A Movie That Could Be Poignant And Funny, And Suddenly Quite Violent. To Have A Character Utterly Sideswiped, And To Learn That Life Is About Balance.

You Know, Independent Films Have Been Institutionalized, Practically. Every Studio Has Got A Boutique Arthouse Label.

The Zionist Tulsa Jew Who's Pugnacious Is A Reality. I Grew Up Around It. And I Think It's Really, Really Funny And Surprising And Unlikely.

A Lot Of Why I Do Something Is Just The Novelty Of The Experience.