I Did Keep A Travel Diary Once

My First Attempt At Writing Was Very Unstructured And Formless, With Shifting Points Of View. I Was Trying To Understand How Long Form Might Work, And I Realized I Had Something Shapeless. It Was A Total Car Wreck. But I Still Felt I Could Pull It Off. So I Ditched That Attempt And Started Writing In The Opposite Manner, In First Person, With A Driving Narrative.

The Key Relationship For Writers In Film Is Producers, Because Those Are The First Two People Involved And The Ones Who Work On It Intensely In A Private Way Without The Big Machinery Of Film.

The First I Heard Of The Beach Was In Bangkok, On The Ko Sanh Road.

When I See 'sunshine,' I See A Film That Part Of Me Is Kind Of Very Proud Of And Another Part Of Me Is Very Sad About, So It's A Really Complicated Film For Me. And I've Never Been Really Able To Resolve All That In Myself.

The Truth Is, I Hadn't Grown Up Really Wanting To Be A Writer. The Whole Thing Was A Weird Aberration In Some Ways, And I Didn't Feel Personally Connected To The Level Of Success I Had With It - The Success Of Sorts, I Guess.