A Lot Of People Go To The

The Key Is, If Youre Not Monkeying Around With The Script, Then Everything Usually Goes Pretty Well.

But My Sense In Talking To People When I Travel Is That The Film Business Is Not That Dissimilar From A Lot Of Other Businesses.

I Don't Have Any Kind Of Ideology That Precludes Me From Moving In One Direction Or Another. I Just Want Creative Autonomy And I Want At Least An Opportunity That It's Going To Be Seen.

"a Meteor Hits Planet Earth" - That's A Story Idea But That Doesn't Give Me Any Indication Of What The Character Is.

I'm Mystified By The Stuff That Doesn't Work. I'm Mystified By What's Going On In The Critical Side, Too. Stuff I Like Is Getting Trashed And Stuff That Is Being Praised I Think Is Terrible. I Don't Really Feel In Sync With What's Happening, But At The Same Time, What I Think Keeps Me Afloat Is That I Try Not To Be, And Don't Want To Be, Very Indulgent. I Try To Make The Films As Lean As Possible, And To Not Spend A Lot Of Time Crawling Up My Own Ass Creatively.