My First Film I Made, "permanent Vacation,"

You Are The Accumulations Of Your Experiences At Any Given Point. And When You Express Something Those Things Come Out. The Thing Is I Hate Seeing My Films When I'm Done With Them, So I Don't Look Back As A Chart Of My Life, But I Leave It As A Kind Of Chart. Though, It Is A Photograph, Captured.

The Filmmaker Amos Poe Was A Huge Inspiration For Me By Making Guerrilla-style Punk Films On The Streets Of New York And - Well, It's Just A Lot Of Painters And Artists And Filmmakers All Within That Scene, And It's Very, Very Important To Me.

I Think You Can Only Be Nostalgic For Something You've Lost.

As Soon As You Start Making A Film That's Expensive Then The Studio Wants Total Control Over All Elements Of It Because They Want To Get All Their Money Back. If You Make A Smaller Film You Can Try A Lot More Things Because You Can Have Control Over It And Not Just Be A Hired Director. The Lower The Budget The More Freedom You Have.

I Even Think The Commercial Element Of New American Directors Is Really Fertile Right Now. There Are A Lot Of Filmmakers With Very Particular Visions, Like Sofia Coppola And Wes Anderson And P.t. Anderson And Alexander Payne And Peter Sollett And Harmony Korine And Vincent Gallo. At Least They're Making Films That They Choose To Make, And They're On Their Own. That's Positive To Me. This Is Not A Dead Period For American Cinema At All.