I Become Kind Of Obsessive About Research.

It Feels Really Sad, To Me, To Go To A Dark Bedroom. It's Like Surrendering To The Night Or Something.

I Felt, Implicitly, Or Not So Implicitly, That Subjects About Women And Other Races Were Out Of My Jurisdiction As A Creator. That If I Moved Too Far From My Own Experience, And My Own Established Identity, I Would Be Criticized For Taking Even More Of Those Wedding Pies From Others.

I'm Starting To Teach Now: I Teach In The Graduate Film Program At Nyu And Next Year I'm Going To Be Teaching At Los Angeles At The Film Program And English Program At Ucla.

You Just Don't Really Rehearse Kissing Scenes, Whether It's Male Or Female.

We Tell Specific Stories About Ourselves To Ourselves And We're All The Heroes Of Our Own Lives. But You Live Through Certain Experiences With Other People, And Sometimes They Have Very Different Takes On What Happened.