(as) A Director Who Is A Writer,

We Wanted To Show People What It Was Like In One Of Those Neighbourhoods That They Would Never Have Access To, In Bars That They Would Be Too Scared To Go Into, And A World That They Would Never Get To See. All Of That Is Something Really Unusual And Rare And Kind Of Fascinating. And The Only Way To Do That And To Make It Really Worthwhile Was That It Had To Be Authentic. We Dedicated A Lot Of Time And Energy To Making That Right And Real. So We Found Basically The Worst Locations That We Could.

But On Balance, A Performer Wants To Feel That There's Something There Which Stands Out Because You Put A Lot Of Effort Into It, A Lot Of Energy And A Lot Of Yourself Into Something. I Feel Pretty Successful About Some Movies I've Been In That Have Not Been Greeted With A Lot Of Enthusiasm And I Do Trust My Own Criteria.

There's Something Really Great And Romantic About Being Poor And Sleeping On Couches.

There Is Currency To Celebrity, Or Celebrity Is A Currency... You Can Spend It In A Lot Of Ways, Or You Can Squander It. You Can Be Taxed, As Well. I Really Started Thinking Long And Hard About How To Use That Currency As Long As I Had It.

My Mother Always Accused Me Of Being In Love With The Sound Of My Own Voice. When We Went On Road Trips, She'd Be Like, 'stop Singing. Be Quiet, You're Talking Just To Hear Yourself Speak.' It Was Probably True. I Like To Ramble On, Which Is Probably Why I'm Well Suited To Interviews. You Know, There's No Other Forum Where You're Literally Supposed To Sit Down And Just Talk For Hours About Yourself. I Love It.