All The Women Are Going Around Saying,

It's Hard To See A Film One Time And Really "get It," And Write Fully And Intelligently About It. That's A Review. That's Not Film Criticism. And There's So Many Expectations Involved, Too. You're Going In To See The Latest Martin Scorsese Or Stanley Kubrick Film, You Really Have High Hopes, And You Can't Help But Find That It's Not Exactly What You Had In Your Head Going In. Until You Can Watch It Again, You Can't Accept The Work For What It Intends To Be. It Takes At Least A Second Viewing.

Memory Is A Wonderful Thing If You Don't Have To Deal With The Past.

All I've Learned Is That You Need The Studio System Sometimes, If Your Budget Is A Certain Size, And Other Films You Can Do Independently. When I Think Of A Studio, I Generally Think Of Distribution. Since I'm A Director, I Have A Similar Creative Experience On Every Film I Do, Because I Can Control That. But Then It's A Different Film, I Think, As It Reaches The Public, Depending On The Way It's Marketed. I Don't Know. I Haven't Learned Much Of Anything. Sometimes You Need Them, Sometimes You Don't. Sometimes They Want You, Most Of The Time They Don't.

When You're Trying To Get Laid, Everything's Great, But Once You've Been With Someone Eight Years And The Future Is Not Finite, You Have Time To Sit And Really Examine Every Little Thing That Irritates You.

I Worked Offshore As An Oil Worker For A Couple Of Years.