Sometimes, The People Who Are Helping You

With 'good Will Hunting,' Miramax Made Certain The Recruited Audience Wasn't Expecting To Laugh At Robin Williams Like They Normally Do. From My Limited Experience, You Can Really Blow Test Screenings By Conducting Them In The Wrong Way.

My Art Teacher In Junior High Was A Very Out Gay Man And A Mentor To Me. He Would Tell Us About Greenwich Village And Show Us The 'village Voice' And Describe His Life, But It Was All Sort Of Subversive And Below The Radar.

I Used To Take Photographs Just To Remember People.

I'm Usually Trying To React To What The Actors Are Coming Up With. And Then The Environment, And Then The Story.

The Biopic Also Wasn't A Form That I Necessarily Believed In, Because You Can Never Really Get It Right, You Know? It's Also A Form That's Very Popular - The Straight-ahead Biopic.