I Graduated From College In 1980.

Before You Start Production, You Have Characters You Have Created Without Actors In Mind, Then All Of A Sudden You've Got Actors. They Bring An Enormous Amount In Creating These Characters, And Creating The Dynamics Between The Characters That You've Written.

People Will Say Things After A Screening That It Affects Them In A Certain Way, Which Is Why I Don't Like To Explain What Certain Things Are About. I Want Them To Have That. It Limits People's Ability To Understand Something If I Say It's "about This." That's Happened To Us A Bunch On This.

I Do A Lot Of Things Intuitively. I'm Not Often Consciously Aware Of What I'm Doing. It's Like In A Dream: There's Something Going On That's Powerful But You Don't Know Exactly Why.

I'm Not Working On Anything. I Was Trying To Write Something New . . . I Guess The Goal For Me Now, At Least At This Point, Is To Try To Direct Again.

As A Writer, Or As A Filmmaker, You Have To Present Yourself, And Part Of What Yourself Is Is What You're Interested In, Or What You Think Is Funny, Or What You Think Is Sad, Or What You Think Is Horrible.