As We Say In The Sewer, Time

I Don't Feel Insecure About Any Of This Work Anymore. Maybe I Don't Have What I Had When I Was Younger. I'm Not Really Hungry To Prove Anything To Anybody, Really. But When I Stand Outside Myself And Observe What I Think Are My Strengths And Weaknesses Going Into Directing, It's What You Just Said, An Affliction To Organize Moments.

I'd Say That, In Addition To Actually Taking My Brother And Sister And I Camping And Hiking And River Rafting All Our Lives And Introducing Us To The Power Of Natural Landscapes, His [my Father's] Biggest Impact On My Thinking Has Been To Always Argue That The "spiritual Case For Nature" Was Not Going To Outweigh The Needs Of 7 Billion People And To Insist That Law, Science And Economics Were The Critical Frameworks Through Which We Had To Defend The Value Of Nature.

When I Was Very Small, I Had That First-time-you-see-a-play Experience, Which Immediately Made Me Want To Act, Because It Seemed Like This Incredible Outlet For Something I Was Already Doing Fairly Compulsively Anyway, Which Was Putting On Hats And Costumes And Doing Funny Voices. It Was A Very Natural Compulsion For Me.

I Have This Embedded Faith In The Process Through Which Films Of A Certain Type Get Discovered On Longer Timelines.

I Never Even Considered Comedy Genre As Something To Embrace Or Move Away From.