I Always Think That I’m Still This

I Didn't Have Any Set Idea Of What Kind Of Filmmaker I Wanted To Be. I Knew I Wanted To Tell Stories That Meant Something To Me, But I Never Said I Was Going To Be The Weird, Avant-garde Guy.

It's Hard To See A Film One Time And Really "get It," And Write Fully And Intelligently About It. That's A Review. That's Not Film Criticism.

I Do Find Myself At The Moment, Due To The Success Of School Of Rock, To Be On People's Radar A Little.

Normally My Process Is To Sit In A Room And Read A Script And Talk About It And Ask Questions And Just Create A Dialogue. That Goes All The Way Through Shooting. All Kinds Of Thoughts And Ideas Can Find Their Way In There. As Long As You're All On - We're Just All Trying To Tell The Story So My Job As A Director Is Just To Find Out What This Film Wants To Be Based On, It's Just Words On A Page At Some Point But Then It Just Needs To Go To Some Level Of Believable Storytelling. I'm Discovering The Film As I Make It, To Some Degree.

When You're In Love, You're Asking Someone Else To Fulfill All Your Unfulfilled Needs, To Make You Whole, And To Make You Feel Good About Everything, And No One Can Do That.