I Only Work With People I Trust

I Felt, Implicitly, Or Not So Implicitly, That Subjects About Women And Other Races Were Out Of My Jurisdiction As A Creator. That If I Moved Too Far From My Own Experience, And My Own Established Identity, I Would Be Criticized For Taking Even More Of Those Wedding Pies From Others.

I'm Starting To Teach Now: I Teach In The Graduate Film Program At Nyu And Next Year I'm Going To Be Teaching At Los Angeles At The Film Program And English Program At Ucla.

I Don't Cast Somebody That I Think Is Like My Younger Self.

I Loved The World Of Oz. I Guess As A Young Man, I Was Just Drawn To Fantasy Worlds. I Liked Being Transported To Alternative Realms Where A Lot Of My Early Imagination Was Sparked.

I Feel There Are So Many Things In This World That Have Been And Are Being Created That I Could Spend The Rest Of My Life Thinking About, And I Couldn't Cover All The Things I'm Interested In. That To Me Is What Makes Life Sweet-learning And Exploring.