Once You're Directing, You're Kind Of In

I Have This New Theory About Films. It's Almost Like Astrology, Where If We Started On A Tuesday The Film Will Be Different Than If We Started On A Wednesday. Not Because Of The Planets. It's That Sometimes You Start With The Wrong Balance And The Whole Thing Gets Messed Up.

I've Always Been Interested In How To Present Something That Relates To Our Reality - Which Is Not Really... I Don't Even Know If Documentary Itself Does As Good A Job. It Has Its Own Problems In Trying To Get At The Reality Of The Situation.

It's Easy To Keep Score At A Football Game Because It's Just How Many Times You Get The Ball Over The Goal. But, When You Ask An Audience To Tell Us How Many Times The Invisible Ball Got Over The Invisible Goal, And They Go, "well, It Was 46," They're Just Making It Up. So, If You're Listening To That, As Though You're Actually Listening To The Score Of A Football Game, You're Misleading Yourself.

You're Following Your Track, The Story, Your Only Plan, Your Map For The Audience, And All The Other Stuff Is, Like, The Fun Stuff: The Costumes, The Locations, The Set-dressing And The Actors. They Can All Be Variable As You Like If You Stick - However Roughly - To The Path.

For All The Boredom The Straight Life Brings, It's Not Too Bad.