We All Give Ourselves A Lot Of

I Have A Lot Of Films That I Haven't Gotten Made, And That Continues To Trouble Me. But Someday, Some Way Or Another, I Think I Will. It's All About Timing. There's A Moment When You're Hot And Studios Will Make Your Next Film, And Then There's A Moment When You're Really Cold, And They Couldn't Care Less What You Want To Do Next. That's When You Have To Recede And Make Lower-budgeted Films.

No One Is Asking What Happened To All The Homeless. No One Cares, Because It's Easier To Get On The Subway And Not Be Accosted.

Normally My Process Is To Sit In A Room And Read A Script And Talk About It And Ask Questions And Just Create A Dialogue. That Goes All The Way Through Shooting. All Kinds Of Thoughts And Ideas Can Find Their Way In There. As Long As You're All On - We're Just All Trying To Tell The Story So My Job As A Director Is Just To Find Out What This Film Wants To Be Based On, It's Just Words On A Page At Some Point But Then It Just Needs To Go To Some Level Of Believable Storytelling. I'm Discovering The Film As I Make It, To Some Degree.

It's Hard To See A Film One Time And Really "get It," And Write Fully And Intelligently About It. That's A Review. That's Not Film Criticism. And There's So Many Expectations Involved, Too. You're Going In To See The Latest Martin Scorsese Or Stanley Kubrick Film, You Really Have High Hopes, And You Can't Help But Find That It's Not Exactly What You Had In Your Head Going In. Until You Can Watch It Again, You Can't Accept The Work For What It Intends To Be. It Takes At Least A Second Viewing.

I Do Find Myself At The Moment, Due To The Success Of School Of Rock, To Be On People's Radar A Little.