I Want To Make A Film About

Well, You Have To Keep Your Faith In The Fact That There Are A Lot Of Intelligent People Who Are Actively Looking For Something Interesting, People Who Have Been Disappointed So Many Times.

…[thomas Wolfe] Says That We Are The Sum Of All The Moments Of Our Lives, And That, Uh, Anybody Who Sits Down To Write Is Gonna Use The Clay Of Their Own Life, That You Can’t Avoid That.

The Idea Is To Remain In A State Of Constant Departure, While Always Arriving.

I've Always Been Most Interested In The Politics Of Everyday Life: Your Relation To Whatever You're Doing, Or What Your Ambitions Are, Where You Live, Where You Find Yourself In The Social Hierarchy.

Editing Rooms Are Kind Of, By Definition, A Bubble Of You And The Editor And What You're Thinking. It's A Truth-telling Thing To Watch It Through Someone Else's Eyes, Is To Get Another Level Of Real With Your Material. Like, "maybe That's Not That Funny. Maybe That's Not As Interesting. Maybe That's Redundant To Something Else. Maybe We Can Cut Down." I Don't Know. It's A Brutal, Honest Process. You've Got To Be Pretty - You Can't Be Sentimental. You Have To Be. It's A Cold Process. You Can't Be Nostalgic. You Have To Make Those Tough Decisions.