I'm Trying To Tell A Story And

So When I Write Characters And Situations And Relationships, I Try To Sort Of Utilize What I Know About The World, Limited As It Is, And What I Hear From My Friends And See With My Relatives.

You Spend Most Of Your Time As A Director Trying To Move Forward With The Movie. It Happens On A Daily Basis, If Not More Than Once A Day, That You Are Struggling With Budgetary Constraints. Whereas When You're Writing, The Limitation That You Have Is Your Imagination. So It's Decidedly Non-pragmatic.

I Think If I've Worked Anything Through With Screenwriting It's That I'm Not Going To Be Able To Work Anything Through.

I Think That People Have Expectations Of Themselves And Other People That Are Based On These Fictions That Are Presented To Them As The Way Human Life And Relationships Could Be, In Some Sort Of Weird, Ideal World, But They Never Are. So You're Constantly Being Shown This Garbage And You Can't Get There.

And Then To See The Whole Movie, You're Pretty Much Waiting Until The End Of Production. And The Major Lifting In Terms Of Editing And All That Stuff Is Done Before You Shoot The Movie. That's An Unusual Way To Work.