He Was So. So Dirty, And Just

I Was Being Generous. Gia Coppola Wasn't Even A Filmmaker At That Time, But I Asked Her To Do It, Because I Believed In Her As An Artist. And Because I Wanted A Woman's Take On The Material. The Book Palo Alto Is Very Male-centric, But Gia Carved Out A Bunch Of The Female Characters, And Brought Them To The Fore In The Movie. And The Project Was Richer For It.

Most Of The Books That I've Adapted I'm Doing Because I Love The Book And I Feel Like It's A Great Work Of Art In Itself, And When It's A Great Book I Feel As A Director Or A Writer That I Have A Responsibility To Rise To The Level Of The Original. It Makes Me Try To Reach Higher.

When I Read The Book [the Adderall Diaries] I Loved It, And I Maybe Had An Inkling That There Was A Lot Of Good Material In There. I Didn't Quite Know At The Time How To Adapt It Into A Film, But I Hoped I Would Figure It Out One Day.

I Was A Black Center In The Middle Of All The Nature. I Was Nothing, But I Could Do Anything.

I Don't Cast Somebody That I Think Is Like My Younger Self.