It's So Hard For Every Young Person,

My First Car Was Kind Of Sad. My First Car Was When My Parents Had Completely Worn Out Their Toyota Corolla That They Had For 16 Years Or Something. They Gave Me, For My 19th Birthday, This Really Ancient Toyota. So That Was My First Car. And I Loved It. I Thought It Was Amazing, And I Drove It Cross-country. It Was Not Aesthetically Appealing In Any Way. It Was It Fast. It Did Not Handle Well, But It Lasted Forever. I Drove Cross-country And Back, And Then I Gave It To My Sister, And She Drove It For Another 10 Years.

There Is No Trick To Writing A Believable Love Story, A Heartbreaking Scene Or Real-sounding Dialogue. All You Need Is To Tell The Truth. It’s Always Heartbreaking.

But The Truth Is, I've Never Wanted To Be A Movie Star - And I've Been Pretty Clear About That.

Good Genre Movies Are A Little Bit Like Trying To Write A Haiku. There Are Certain Things That You Have To Do To Fulfill The Audience's Expectations, But Inside That, You Have Complete Freedom To Talk About Whatever You Want. Who Wants To See A Movie About Gun Violence In America And Class? But, If You Set It In This Terrifying, Fun, Roller Coaster Ride Of A Movie, You Can Talk About Whatever You Want. That's Been The Game That Genre Movies Play, When They Do It Well.

The Experience On That Movie (dead Poets Society) Was, For Lack Of A Better Term, Life-altering. Peter Weir Has A Unique Talent For Making Movies That Are Intelligent But Also Mainstream. I've Never Been Terribly Successful At Doing That.