I Do Throw Out A Lot Of

People Ask Me All The Time, "what Are Your Influences? Are You Trying To Do Beckett?" It's Like, "no, I'm Trying To Do Me." Whatever That Is. I Don't Know What That Is, But That's The Basis. I'm Trying To Be True And I'm Trying To Be Honest.

I'm Moving - As A Person And As A Writer - Through Time. I'm A Different Age. I'm Thinking About Different Things. I Have Different Life Experiences. I'm Trying To Get Closer To Being Honest. And By Closer I Mean That At Different Ages I Have Different Ideas Of What The Truth Is, And At Any Point I'm Trying To Express That At That Moment In Time.

The Way I Write Is Very Much Without Kind Of A Goal. I Have Something I'm Interested In And Then I Decide I'm Going To Explore It. I Don't Know Where The Characters Are Going To Go, I Don't Know What The Movie Is Going To Do Or What The Screenplay Is Going To Do. For Me, That's The Way To Keep It Alive.

You Spend Most Of Your Time As A Director Trying To Move Forward With The Movie. It Happens On A Daily Basis, If Not More Than Once A Day, That You Are Struggling With Budgetary Constraints. Whereas When You're Writing, The Limitation That You Have Is Your Imagination. So It's Decidedly Non-pragmatic.

I Choose To Write Characters From The Inside Because I Feel Like That's The Way I'm Gonna Get The Most Honest Version Of Them.