People Say You Can't Make Movies About

Even My Wife And Two Of My Children Are In "leaves Of Grass". Because I Love The Source Material So Much, It Was Really Easy To Write And An Utter Delight To Get To Direct Because I Had People Like Edward [norton] Elevating The Material And Surprising Me In Their Interpretations Of All Of This Stuff That's So Close To Me.

I Think One Of The Most Important Investments An Organization Like Tnc (the Nature Conservancy) Can Make Is In Helping Build Local Capacity - Supporting The Growth Of A Global Network Of Small Community-based Entities. Help People Who Live Within Critical Ecosystems Help Themselves And Their Neighbors To Design A Better Future Relationship Between Themselves And Their Natural Resources.

You're Always Choosing The Start Point And The End Point. And Almost By Definition, The Most Interesting Period Is Where Something Happens, As A Result Of Which Something Is Different At The End. And So To Me, The Idea That You Know Everything About A Character At The Beginning Is Sort Of Ridiculous. Something Has To Be Revealed. I Like It When The Deeper You Go With The Character, The More You See The Layers Start To Peel Away. It's More Challenging To Me, But It's Also Just Interesting. Those Are The Things I Like To Watch. I Like To Watch The Evolutions Of Something.

Popularity Is The Slutty Little Cousin Of Prestige, My Friend.

I Think It's A Total Fallacy For People To Say, "you Couldn't Make Those Old Movies Today." I Think There's More Ways To Get A Movie Made Today Than Ever In The History Of The Entertainment Industry. It's A Very Exciting Time To Work In Movies, If You're A Creative Person Looking To Make A Very Personal, Weird Vision.