My First Three Movies, I Didn't Start

I've Begun To Believe More And More That Movies Are All About Transitions, That The Key To Making Good Movies Is To Pay Attention To The Transition Between Scenes. And Not Just How You Get From One Scene To The Next, But Where You Leave A Scene And Where You Come Into A New Scene. Those Are Some Of The Most Important Decisions That You Make. It Can Be The Difference Between A Movie That Works And A Movie That Doesn't.

When A Film Like Chris Nolan's Memento Cannot Get Picked Up, To Me Independent Film Is Over. It's Dead.

It's A Weird Thing To Say, But It Would Appear To Me Axiomatic That If You Understood Fully What I Was Doing And Appreciated It, You Would Like It.

Every Time You Make Something That Somebody Likes, Your Impulse Is To Remind Them That If You Hadn't Made Some Of These Other Things That They Hated, You Wouldn't Have Been Able To Make The Thing That They Liked.

I Look At Other Filmmakers And See Skills In Them That I Wish I Had But I Know That I Don't. I Feel Like I Have To Work Really Hard To Keep Myself Afloat, Doing What I Do. But I Find It Pleasurable.