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When I Read The Book [the Adderall Diaries] I Loved It, And I Maybe Had An Inkling That There Was A Lot Of Good Material In There. I Didn't Quite Know At The Time How To Adapt It Into A Film, But I Hoped I Would Figure It Out One Day.

I Always See Nice Images Like That But I Don't Know What To Do With Them. I Guess You Share Them With Someone. Or You Write Them Down In A Poem. I Had So Many Of Those Little Images, But I Never Shared Them Or Wrote Any Of Them Down.

I Was Being Generous. Gia Coppola Wasn't Even A Filmmaker At That Time, But I Asked Her To Do It, Because I Believed In Her As An Artist. And Because I Wanted A Woman's Take On The Material. The Book Palo Alto Is Very Male-centric, But Gia Carved Out A Bunch Of The Female Characters, And Brought Them To The Fore In The Movie. And The Project Was Richer For It.

I Get To Work With Incredibly Talented Young Filmmakers And Students, And Their Attitudes And Relationship With Film Is Still So Pure. That Re-inspires Me And Reminds Me Why I Got Into It And What I Love About Film, And Allows Me A Little Reprieve From The Business Side Of It. And It Rekindles My Love Of Film.

Showing The Addiction And Unusual Sexual Practices Are Ways Of Just Outlining A Much Bigger Character Trait.