In Drama, I Think, The Audience Is

I've Been Friends With The Guys In Radiohead For A Lot Of Years, And I Watch The Way Those Guys Work With Incredible Envy. Because Whatever The Slings And Arrows Of Dealing With The Record Business, At The End Of The Day, They Have Total Creative Autonomy. They Don't Need A Lot To Do What They Do, And Thom [yorke] And Jonny [greenwood] And The Guys Have Their Own Joint In Their Hometown.

Every Little Thing That People Know About You As A Person Impedes Your Ability To Achieve That Kind Of Terrific Suspension Of Disbelief That Happens When An Audience Goes With An Actor And Character He's Playing.

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.

I'm Fascinated By The Ways In Which People Express Themselves, Because Their Responses Are Often Counter To What They're Actually Feeling. Like When They're Frightened, They Tend To Freeze. When They're Angry, It Doesn't Always Come Out As Volume. There Are Wonderful Contradictions In The Way That People Express Their Emotions.

I Don't Feel Insecure About Any Of This Work Anymore. Maybe I Don't Have What I Had When I Was Younger. I'm Not Really Hungry To Prove Anything To Anybody, Really. But When I Stand Outside Myself And Observe What I Think Are My Strengths And Weaknesses Going Into Directing, It's What You Just Said, An Affliction To Organize Moments.