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As A Boy Id Often Spend My Days Biking On Riverbeds And Arroyos And Come Home Exhausted. I Realize Now How Much I Took For Granted Having The Natural World So Close At Hand. It Wasnt Until I Moved Away, First To New York And Then To Los Angeles, That I Realized How Much I Missed The Outdoors.

A Story Has The Opportunity To Enlighten Us, Because As We Connect The Extraordinary Moments On Film With The Ordinary Moments Of Our Lives, We Ask Ourselves, "what Am I Going To Do The Next Time I'm Scared? What Would It Be Like To Say Goodbye To My Family For The Last Time?"

No Journalist Has Ever Been In My House And No Photographs Have Ever Been Taken Of Where I Live. I Don't Parade My Family Out For Display, Which Is The Way It Will Stay.

When I Was 21 Years Old, I Had A Job Playing Santa Claus In A Shopping Centre In Sacramento. I Was Rail Thin, So It's Not Like I Was A Traditional Santa Claus Even Then. I Had A Square Stomach; That Was The Shape Of The Sofa Cushion That I Had Stuffed Into My Pants.

That's What's Nice About Directing A Film And Having It Done: There's Nothing More I Can Do About It. It's Done. That's It. All I Can Do Is Let It Go And Hope That People Are Kind To It.