No Matter How Dark Things May Get

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.

After A Brief Period In Which I Had Let Many A Southern Californian Convince Me That It Was All 'in My Mind,' I Am Once Again Officially Allergic To Dogs.

Well, I Stopped Drinking. That Was Actually A Big Deal. I Didn't Go Through Any Harrowing Rock-bottom Experience. I Just Made A Decision To Stop Drinking.

In Writing Scripts Now, Having Made A Film, I'm Much More Conscious Of What It Means To Shoot And Edit A Movie, And That Affects The Writing.

It's Not Our Job To Play Judge And Jury, To Determine Who Is Worthy Of Our Kindness And Who Is Not. We Just Need To Be Kind, Unconditionally And Without Ulterior Motive, Even - Or Rather, Especially - When We'd Prefer Not To Be.