For A While I Wanted To Be

My Father Could Be Very Distancing. My Clearest Memory Is Of Him Squatting, Watering Plants For Hours And Hours At A Time, Completely Silent. He Was Very Self-contained; My Mother Was More Outgoing And Chatty And Social. I'm Certainly More Like Her.

Some Directors Expect You To Do Everything; Write, Be Producer, Psychiatrist. Some Just Want You To Die In A Tragic Accident During The Shooting So They Can Get The Insurance.

For A While I Wanted To Be A Professional Baseball Pitcher, And Then I Wanted To Be A Musician And Then Sometimes I Think I'd Like To Start A Store For Gift-wrapping Christmas Presents... But I Feel I Could Do Most Things I Set My Mind To, Except Mechanical Things, I'm Not Very Good At That.

I Like To Direct Movies, But I Don't Like To Goof Around For Eight Years Talking About It. And It's Pretty Irritating To Get A Movie On. So To Complicate It By Having More Irritation As A Director, I Don't Really Need It. And Because I Direct A Great Deal Still, But In The Theater, I Kind Of Get That Anyway. Which Is Not At All To Say I Would Never Do It Again, Or It Would Never Happen Again.

Unlike My Grandfather Or My Brother, I've Actually Been Able To Make Some Money At A Racetrack.