I'm In My Mind A Lot. I

I Hate A Movie That Will End By Telling You That The First Thing You Should Do Is Learn To Love Yourself. That Is So Insulting And Condescending, And So Meaningless. My Characters Don't Learn To Love Each Other Or Themselves.

David Lynch Is Very Important To Me, And He Does Dreamlike Movies, But My Dreams Are Not Like David Lynch's Dreams. I Have No Interest In Copying Anybody's Work. It Would Never Occur To Me To Want This To Look Like Someone Else's Thing.

There's Theater In Life, Obviously, And There's Life In Theater.

The Difference Between A Movie And A Play Is That The Production You End Up With Is The Production. If A Movie That I Spent Time On Turns Out To Be Crap, It's Never Going To Be Made Again.

The Conventional Wisdom Is - People Say This All The Time - You Should Only Write Something When You're Far Enough Away From It That You Can Have A Perspective. But That's Not True. That's A Story That You're Telling. The Truth Of It Is Here, Right Now. It's The Only Truth That We Ever Know. And I'm Interested In That Truth And The Confusion Being Part Of The Experience And Sorting It Your Way Through And Figuring It Out.