I'm A Tulsa Jew And I Have

You Dream As An Actor's Director Of Letting Moments Breathe Through Two-shots.

Everyone Thinks That Fight Club Is A Very Important And Successful Film, But It Was A Massive Box-office Failure. Massive. It Was A Big Flop By Any Commercial-release Standard. And It's Been A Huge Hit On Dvd. Everything That Movie Has Become Has Been On Dvd. So You Can't Stake Your Sense Of Creative Success On This Whole Box-office-performance Matrix, Because If You Do, You're Going To Be Disappointed Most Of The Time.

In A Very Philosophic Sense I Think Doing The Work Is Itself A Good Thing. But At The End Of The Day, Since We're Taking Other People's Shekels To Do It, And Their Work Is Being Able To Make A Return Out Of It, It Forces You To Consider The Fact That You're Doing It For Other People. The Whole Construct Is Built Around The Assumption That It's Going To Get Shared, And That Someone Else Is Going To Find Value In It - Entertainment, Catharsis, Enlightenment, Or Whatever.

Everyone Keeps Saying The Western's Dead, But It's Not.

I Tend To Have A Kind Of Tunnel Vision When I'm Looking At An Individual Piece.