As A Filmmaker, I Ask Questions But

The Process Of Making A Movie Has Expanded In Terms Of Effort And Time For The Director, Doing Commentaries For The Dvd For Example, Finishing Deleted Scenes So They Could Be On The Dvd, And Doing Things Like A Web Blog.

My Understanding Of Life Is Very Existential. I Think That We Are Our Bodies. There's Nothing Else, And When We Die, That's It. No Afterlife.

Re-writing Is Different From Writing. Original Writing Is Very Difficult.

Of Course For Many Years Directors Have Had To Go On The Road With Their Movies And Promote Them And I've Done That Since The Beginning. So That's Not New But The Forms Of It Are Different Such As With The Internet.

It Was Apparent To Me That Religion Was An Invented Thing, A Wish-fulfillment Thing, A Fantasy Thing. It Was Much More Real, Dangerous, To Accept That Mortality Was The End For You As An Individual. As An Atheist, I Don't Believe In An Afterlife, So If You're Thinking Of Murder, If Your Subject Is Murder, Then That's A Physical Act Of Absolute Destruction Because You're Ending Something, A Body, That Is Unique. That Person Never Existed Before, Will Never Exist Again, Will Not Be Karmically Recycled, Will Not Go To Heaven, Therefore I Take It Seriously.