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An Essential Element Of Any Art Is Risk. If You Don't Take A Risk Then How Are You Going To Make Something Really Beautiful, That Hasn't Been Seen Before?

When You Make A Film It Is Like Asking Yourself A Question. When It Is Finished, You Know The Answer. Ultimately With All Of Cinema, We Are Just Trying To Learn About Ourselves. I Have Always Used The Opportunity To Make A Film To Learn More About Myself, Which I Am Still Doing.

When I Was Sixteen Or Seventeen, I Wanted To Be A Writer. I Wanted To Be A Playwright. But Everything I Wrote, I Thought, Was Weak. And I Can Remember Falling Asleep In Tears Because I Had No Talent The Way I Wanted To Have.

So Give Yourself That Chance To Put Together The 80, 90 Pages Of A Draft And Then Read It Very In A Nice Little Ceremony, Where You're Comfortable, And You Read It And Make Good Notes On It, What You Liked, What Touched You, What Moved You, What's A Possible Way, And Then You Go About On A Rewrite.

When I Was Going For My Graduate Degree, I Decided I Was Going To Make A Feature Film As My Thesis. That's What I Was Famous For-that I Had My Thesis Film Be A Feature Film, Which Was 'you're A Big Boy Now.'