L.a. Is So Isolated And Unhip In

I Definitely Believe In The Energy Of The Set And The Energy Of The Actor, Way More Than Your Written Word.

To Me It's Like, Every Time I'm A Director, Like Today, You're The Captain Of The Ship, So You Better Dress Like It. You're The Host Of The Party.

We Never Did Things As We Were Supposed To Do. That Was Part Of Our Ethic. We Did What Felt Right To Us, Not What Someone Told Us We Should Do.

People Ask 'how Does Doing A Film Compare To Doing An Ad?' Well, When You're Doing A Commercial You Don't Have To Sell Tickets. You Have A Captured Audience. Which Is Actually Completely Rare And Great; It Gives You A Lot Of Freedom. When You Make A Film, You Have To Do Advertisements For The Film.

My Experience, With Both My Parents, Is That Grief Has A Lot Of Down, Sad Things, But I Was Also Really Emotionally Raw, In The First Year After Each Of Them Passed. Flowers Smelled More Intensely, My Relationships Were Hotter, And I Was More Willing To Risk. I Was Going For It A Lot More. I Was 'unsober' And I Wasn't Playing By My Rules.