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I Really Like To Travel When I Write. Something About Seeing New Things And Being In New Cultures And Environments Provokes New Thoughts In Your Head.

When I Write A Film, There's A Particular Thing I Am Wrestling With And The Question Or Concern I'm Dealing With Has To Be Big Enough For Me To Dedicate A Year Or Two Of My Life. If The Question Isn't Big Enough, Or Rich Enough, I'll Lose Interest.

I Know Not Everyone Starts Out Reading High Literature. If You Read Enough You Might Be Drawn To Some Other Things, So Maybe Those Vampire Books Are What They Call 'gateway Books.' I Just Coined That Term. I Don't Know If There's A Thing Called 'gateway Books.

Kindness Is Not About Instant Gratification. More Often, It's Akin To A Low-risk Investment That Appreciates Steadily Over Time.

And As A Filmmaker, I'm Trying To Unhook Myself From This Idea That Unless You Have A Brilliant, Long, Enormously Lucrative Theatrical Run, That Your Movie Somehow Failed. And I Don't Believe That.