There Are Only So Many Movies You

Filmmaking Is Finding A Piece Of Granite And You Start To Chip Away And Then You Have The Shape Of A Head, The Shape Of The Arm, You Can See The Shape Of The Face And The Face Starts To Gather Character. You Have To Find It.

Selfishness, Narcissism, Being Uncomfortable In Your Own Skin, Not Feeling Connected To The World Around You, Feeling Dislocated From Family And Youth, Having A Strange Relationship With Your Childhood - All Those Things Feel Really True To Me.

I'd Done Table Reads For My Own Screenplays, And I Always Thought They Were So Much Fun. Why Couldn't We Do These For Other Classic Screenplays And Bring Them To Life? You Can Experience Live Theater, Where You Get To See Plays Produced By Different Directors And Different Casts, But There's Really Nothing Like That For Movie Scripts.

I'm Really Attracted To Authors Who Take On Really Tricky Material With A Very Open Mind And Take A Subject Matter That You Wouldn't Think Would Be A Comedy.

Too Many People Believe In That [alfred] Hitchcock Thing That He Only Shot Exactly The Shots He Needed For The Dialogue He Needed And I Think That's Bullshit, Even If That Was True For That Singular Filmmaker.