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The Things That Are More My Own Style Are Something That I Don't Really Have To Think About. The Only Time I Have To Think About Them Is If I Want To Force Myself Not To Do It The Way I Do It.

I Want To Try Not To Repeat Myself. But Then I Seem To Do It Continuously In My Films. It's Not Something I Make Any Effort To Do. I Just Want To Make Films That Are Personal, But Interesting To An Audience. I Feel I Get Criticized For Style Over Substance, And For Details That Get In The Way Of The Characters. But Every Decision I Make Is How To Bring Those Characters Forward.

That's The Kind Of Movie That I Like To Make, Where There Is An Invented Reality And The Audience Is Going To Go Someplace Where Hopefully They've Never Been Before. The Details, That's What The World Is Made Of.

I Chose Philosophy Because It Sounded Like Something I Ought To Be Interested In. I Didn't Know Anything About It, I Didn't Even Know What It Was Talking About. What I Really Spent My Time Doing In Those Years Was Writing Short Stories. There Were All Sorts Of Interesting Courses, But What I Really Wanted To Do Was Make Stories One Way Or Another.

You Don't Do Background Music The Way A Lot Of More Conventional Films Do. The Music Is Often Kind Of A Character In Your Films To The Extent That Sometimes You Stop And Watch Someone Perform A Song.