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I Grew Up Mostly In The South, And There's Definitely Something About The South That's Different From The North. When People Ask Me Where I'm From, I Say Louisiana. I Spent More Years There Than Anywhere Else.

I'm Obviously Really Opinionated, But As A Producer, You Don't Necessarily Want The Person You're Working With To Try To Impress You - You Want Them To Just Be Themselves.

If You're Going To Make A Movie For Ten Thousand You Can Talk Everybody Into Doing It For Free. You Could Make A Really Good-looking Movie Right For Ten Grand, If You Have An Idea.

I'm Mystified By The Stuff That Doesn't Work. I'm Mystified By What's Going On In The Critical Side, Too. Stuff I Like Is Getting Trashed And Stuff That Is Being Praised I Think Is Terrible. I Don't Really Feel In Sync With What's Happening, But At The Same Time, What I Think Keeps Me Afloat Is That I Try Not To Be, And Don't Want To Be, Very Indulgent. I Try To Make The Films As Lean As Possible, And To Not Spend A Lot Of Time Crawling Up My Own Ass Creatively.

I'm Probably More Character-driven Than Plot-driven. It's Rare For Me To Attach Myself To An Idea For A Story.