I'm Normally Drawn To Something I Haven't

The Things That Inform Student Culture Are Created And Controlled By The Unseen Culture, The Sociological Aspects Of Our Climbing Culture, Our 'me' Generation, Our Yuppie Culture, Our Suvs, Or, You Know, Shopping Culture, Our War Culture.

Once You're Directing, You're Kind Of In A Certain Mode, Where You're Taking Whatever Is On The Page And Forming It Into The Film That You Think It Might Want To Be. So Whether It's My Writing Or Not, I Still Try To Work With It In The Same Way.

If A Movie Isn't Released, It's One Thing, But If You Know It Will Be, It's Nice To Have Closure And See It Come Out.

When I Was 14, I Felt Very Rundown; I Had A Home To Go To, But I Felt Like I Was 60 Or Something, Older Than I Feel Now. And I Don't Know If It's Something That Happens At 14, Or Whether It Was Adolescence Or Whether I Was Gay, Or Closeted Gay, Or Whatever It Was, I Felt That.

The Biopic Also Wasn't A Form That I Necessarily Believed In, Because You Can Never Really Get It Right, You Know? It's Also A Form That's Very Popular - The Straight-ahead Biopic.