I Don't Cast Somebody That I Think

You Are Successful If You Are Able To Work On The Kind Of Material That You Want To - If Your Life Conforms To Your Dreams, Regardless Of Outside Acceptance Or Acclaim.

You're A White Male Living In America, Brought Up In One Of The Richest Cities In The County, Palo Alto. You Went To High School With Steve Jobs' Daughter, And Your Journalism Teacher Is The Mother-in-law Of Sergey, Co-founder Of Google.

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.

When We Were Doing 'freaks And Geeks', I Didn't Quite Understand How Movies And Tv Worked, And I Would Improvise Even If The Camera Wasn't On Me. I Thought I Was Helping The Other Actors By Keeping Them On Their Toes, But Nobody Appreciated It When I Would Trip Them Up. So I Was Improvising A Little Bit Back Then, But Not In A Productive Way.

I Got Arrested For Graffiti. I Got Arrested - A Lot Of, Like, Underage Drinking, Drunk In Public, Shoplifting, You Know, Your Various, Like, Suburban Arrests, I Guess.