I Never Even Considered Comedy Genre As

A Lot Of People Ask, "what Do You Pull On In Your Own Life From Your Character?" In All Honesty, It's Not Something That Really Works That Way For Me. I Tend To Look At These Things As An Imaginative Process And A Challenge Of Imagination And Empathy, To Some Degree. I Get Much More Out Of Meeting People Who Have Lived These Lives Than I Do Digging Around In My Own Limited Experiences.

I Thought Rounders Was A Comic Movie In Its Way. First Time I Directed A Movie, I Wanted To Do A Comedy. I Don't Like Things That Are Superficially One Thing Or Another, Mainly. My Favorite Comedies Are Really Smart, Too, And Have A Lot Of Levels To Them As Well.

When I'm Looking For Zen And I'm Not Saying This Facetiously At All - I Would Really Rather Surf, Scuba Dive, Or Fly My Plane. And, When I Feel Tension About The Grind Of Work, It's Not Getting The Money To Make Films Versus Making Films That Constitutes The Grind, It's All This Stuff.

It's Ginned Up By The Corporate Plutocracy As A Way Of Distracting The Working-class People That It's Screwing. We Hamstring Our Own Natural Progressivism In This Country, And That's Really Stupid.

I Think One Of The Most Important Investments An Organization Like Tnc (the Nature Conservancy) Can Make Is In Helping Build Local Capacity - Supporting The Growth Of A Global Network Of Small Community-based Entities. Help People Who Live Within Critical Ecosystems Help Themselves And Their Neighbors To Design A Better Future Relationship Between Themselves And Their Natural Resources.