I Just Wanted It To Be American.

Spaceman 3 Was One Of My Favorite Bands Growing Up, And Jason Spaceman Is Someone I Got Along Well With. I Always Felt His Music Was Like Narcotic Gospel - There's Something Very Moody And Ethereal About It. Sun City Girls Is The Same, But Different. To Me, They're Like The Premier American Avant Music Act. They're Like The Marx Brothers Of Music. I Don't Mean They're Funny Like That, But They Turn Everything On Its Head.

Directing, To Me, Starts Even Before We Get To The Set. Directing Is A Fluid, An Abstract Thing. It's Not Done Only Purely In The Moment. It's An Idea That You Plant Before. It's A Location That You Show. It's Something I Whisper In Someone's Ear. It's A Freeform Thing. It Only Takes Me A Week To Write The Script, But It's Years That You're Thinking About It. The Execution Is Really The Fast Part.

I've Always Been Pulled Toward People Who Can't Seem To Make Anything Fit. It's Like A Cinema Of Isolation, Of Loneliness. They Go Outside The System And Create Their Own Society To Develop Their Obsession To An Insane Degree.

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.

I Just Wanted It To Be American.