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I Like Marginal Characters, I Like Real People. I Learn More From Talking To My Plumber When He Comes To Fix My Toilet Than I Do From Meeting A Movie Star. I Think My Movies Are In The Same Vein As That.

One Of Our Favorite Joe Strummer Quotes Was, "no Input, No Output." Meaning, We're Going To Hear A Band, We're Going To Go To A Museum, Or We're Going To Go Hang Out With Some Writer That We Admire. We're Going To Get Some Input, Because If We Don't, Then We Have Nothing. It's A Circle. It's A Respiratory Thing.

I Love Silent Films. The Future Is Unwritten.

To Me, Everything Is Endless Variations On Other Things. Like Waves In The Ocean. They Continue To Turn Over On Each Other, And They're All Slightly Different. I Don't Know If Originality Is Possible. Is It Even Necessary? Because Everything Is Different Than What Came Before, But It's All Branches From The Same Tree. Originality Is Overrated, But What You Do With Things Is Always Different.

I Went To Graduate Film School At Nyu, And At First I Didn't Get A Degree, Because I Took A Scholarship That Was Supposed To Pay My Tuition, And I Used It To Make A Film. For The Longest Time, I Never Actually Graduated. And About 70 Percent Of The Things I Learned There I Had To Unlearn, But 30 Percent Was Really Valuable. It's Like Mark Twain Said, "don't Let School Get In The Way Of Your Education."