At This Point In My Life I'm

I Wish I Were More Musically Gifted, More Intuitive In Playing Instruments.

What We Set Out To Do With This Movie [leaves Of Grass] Was To Create Something That Was Funny And Serious And Had Large Tonal Ambitions. A Movie That Could Be Poignant And Funny, And Suddenly Quite Violent. To Have A Character Utterly Sideswiped, And To Learn That Life Is About Balance.

I Thought Rounders Was A Comic Movie In Its Way. First Time I Directed A Movie, I Wanted To Do A Comedy. I Don't Like Things That Are Superficially One Thing Or Another, Mainly. My Favorite Comedies Are Really Smart, Too, And Have A Lot Of Levels To Them As Well.

I Had A Huge Advantage With Edward Norton Because He's Directed A Movie Before, So One Thing He Appreciates Is How Hard My Job Is, He's Very Sensitive To That. We Actually Ended Up Finishing "leaves Of Grass" A Day Early.

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.