I Just Wanted It To Be American.

The First Time I Hung Out With [david Blaine], He Took Me To This Condemned Building, And It Had A Pizza Oven And He Crawled Into The Pizza Oven And Turned The Heat On To 400 Degrees Or Something Like That, And He Stayed In It For I Guess A Half Hour. He Came Out, And Except For One Or Two Second-degree Burns, He Was Unscathed. You Meet A Lot Of Musicians And Filmmakers And Actors, But It's Rare To Meet Someone Who Can Step Inside A Pizza Oven And Take The Heat. I Was Intrigued By That.

I've Never Been Into Alternative, Hipster Rap Music.

What I Remember Myself From Films, And What I Love About Films, Is Specific Scenes And Characters.

For Certain Things, Certain Audiences, People Will Laugh. And In Other Places, There's Dead Silence. And I Enjoy Them Both. You Try To Make Films Where It's Never One Way - Like Life.

A Lot Of Times You Can Write A Scene With A Specific Song In Mind, And Then You Lay It Over The Image, And It Kills It. I Can Never Figure Out Why Certain Music Works. Some Music You Listen To And Say, "man, That Would Be Great For A Movie." But When You Try It, It's Horrible, Because The Music Itself Is Cinematic. The Weight Of It Kills The Image.