As A Teenager I Was Obsessed With

As A Teenager I Was Obsessed With Music And With Writing And Performing Songs.

Look At It This Way: If You Write The Novel Of 'cold Mountain,' It Costs Exactly The Same To Produce And Market As A Novel Set In A Room. If You Make The Film, The Disparity Of Costs Is Huge.

I Work Fitfully, In Hope Rather Than In Expectation, Invent Methods Which Last A Week, And Fill Notebooks With Tiny, Illegible Writing Which Often Defies My Own Attempts To Decipher It.

I Want To Tell Stories Which Require Something Of An Audience, By Way Of Thought, Argument, Emotion, Because I'm More Often In An Audience Than I Am A Maker Of Films, And That's The Kind Of Movie I Want To See.

The Feeling Of Not Belonging, Of Not Being Entirely Worthy, Of Being Sometimes Hostage To Your Own Sensibilities. Those Things Speak To Me Very Personally.