When I Go To The Movies, I

Casting Is Everything. If You Get The Right People They Make You Look Good.

What's Most Insidious About Mtv Is That It Commodifies Precisely Those Things That Young People Believe Are Subversive. In Other Words, Subversity Itself Has Become A Commodity. It's All A Way To Trick Young People Into Believing That There's Something Unique About What They Do, But This Is All Completely A Corporately Designed Maneuver.

I Don't Have A Formula. Every Time An Actor Wants Me To Hold Their Hand, I Hold Their Hand. If They Say, "stay," I Say "okay, Respect." You Know? "i'm Right Over Here." A Kid, If I Need To Give A Line-reading, I'll Start Acting Out The Part For The Kid And Just Mimic The Kid. You Know? Whatever It Takes.

When I Want To Show The Kind Of Meanness People Are Capable Of, To Make It Believable I Find I Have To Tone It Down. It's In Real Life That People Are Over The Top.

Artwork Can Be A Portal, A Kind Of Rethinking And Reseeing Of The World As We Live It.