It's Hard To Get Lost If You

I Know From The Past, Critics Often Say My Films Don't Have Any Plot, That Kind Of Thing. I'm Used To Being Told, "yeah, It's Slow And Has No Plot."

You Are The Accumulations Of Your Experiences At Any Given Point. And When You Express Something Those Things Come Out. The Thing Is I Hate Seeing My Films When I'm Done With Them, So I Don't Look Back As A Chart Of My Life, But I Leave It As A Kind Of Chart. Though, It Is A Photograph, Captured.

I Didn't Get The Degree Because In My Last Year, For My Thesis Film I Made A Feature Called Permanent Vacation And They'd Given Me A Scholarship, The Louis B Mayer Fellowship And They Made A Mistake.

I Even Think The Commercial Element Of New American Directors Is Really Fertile Right Now. There Are A Lot Of Filmmakers With Very Particular Visions, Like Sofia Coppola And Wes Anderson And P.t. Anderson And Alexander Payne And Peter Sollett And Harmony Korine And Vincent Gallo. At Least They're Making Films That They Choose To Make, And They're On Their Own. That's Positive To Me. This Is Not A Dead Period For American Cinema At All.

I Thought The Limits Of Control Could Be Interpreted In Two Ways: As The Limits Of One's Self-control; And As The Limits Of Allowing Other People's Control Over One's - Consciousness - Which I Kind Of Thought Was A Double Meaning That Was Appropriate.