I'm A Harsh Critic, You Know? I

My Parents Taught Me As A Kid: Do Your Work. Do It Well. Try As Hard As You Can, Whatever It Is. It Will One Day, For The Long Run, It Will Make Some Sort Of Change Somewhere.

I Get Off On The Interaction With People, And I Love The Chess Of A Movie And Particularly - Not Only In Preproduction Or In Production Or Postproduction - The Behavioral Chess. That Is, Learning And Being Humbled By And Also Teaching Certain People Certain Things. I Love That. As A Producer, You Have An Opportunity To See The Whole And Bring People Together.

I Had Been Brought Up In An Elementary School Where, My First Few Grades, I Remember Being Specifically Told That My Teachers Were Gay. I Was Just That Age And That Was Just How It Was, And My Parents Were Very... You Know, That's How I Was Raised. Like Super-progressive.

I'm A Very Political Person, And I Make Political Choices In My Movies.

My Experience On 'jarhead' Was Life Changing.