Of Course, I'm No Dummy.

It's So Hard To Do Anything That Doesn't Owe Some Kind Of Debt To What Stanley Kubrick Did With Music In Movies. Inevitably, You're Going To End Up Doing Something That He's Probably Already Done Before. It Always Seem Like We're Falling Behind Whatever He Came Up With. "singin' In The Rain" (1952) In "a Clockwork Orange" (1971) - That Was The First Time I Became So Aware Of Music In Movies. So No Matter How Hard You Try To Do Something New, You're Always Following Behind.

There’s A Lot For Screenwriters To Steal From Songwriters, In Terms Of Getting To The Point.

My Dad Was This Sort Of Avant-garde Guy Who Did All Kinds Of Weird Things. He Was A True Original And Anybody Who Met Him Never Forgot Him.

It Felt Like The First Thing, But When I First Started Out, I Got A Job Adapting A Book By Russell Banks Called 'rule Of The Bone.' I Didn't Do A Very Good Job. I Didn't Really Know What I Was Doing In General, Let Alone How To Adapt A Book.

As I Have Got Older And Become A Father, There's Less And Less Time For Films.