The Ability To Take Pleasure In One's

For Me, New Jersey Is Kind Of A Mythical Place. It's Emblematic Of A Certain Aspect Of American Life. Florida Is The Same Way. It's Where People Go To Recreate, To Reinvent Themselves. It's What California Used To Be. I Think Florida Is Still A Place To Erase The Past.

I Think, In Fact, There's A Plus And A Minus To Knowing My Prior Work, Happiness And So Forth. The Plus Is Of Course You Can See How I Play With The Characters, The Storylines, And The Way Things Play Off Each Other. And The Minus Is That It Makes You A Little Bit More Self-conscious, That You're Not Able To Enter The Movie As It Exists And Lives And Breathes, Because You're So Busy Making References, Connections That You're Not Able To Release Yourself From And Take The Film On Your Own Terms.

Every Time You Try To Make Another Movie, You Never Know What Will Come Of It. I Can't Say It Ever Gets Easier, But It Is In It's Own Way Gratifying. I Think That Because No One Movie That You Make Ever Quite Satisfies You, You're Always Feeling, "next Time I Can Get It Right."

I Love Working With Actors. If You Cast The Right Person In The Right Part At The Right Time, They Make You Look Like A Better Writer And Director Than You Really Are.

A Movie Takes On Its Own Life, And You Have To Respect That And Be Open To It.