Yeah, I Had Actually Tried To Stop

Sacrificing American Soldiers Or Innocent Civilians In An Unprecedented Preemptive Attack On A Separate Sovereign Nation May Well Prove Itself A Most Temporary Medicine.

It's A Foreground Of My Feeling. That Place Moves Me. And I Don't Mean My Country; It's Part Of Our Shared Natural World That Happens To Be Particular To A Sense Of Wherever My Storytelling Inclinations Come From And My Own History Of Kind Of Being A Road Rat And Travelling.

Reputations Are Maintained By The Outside World, And They're Created By It, Too, By And Large. And They Serve As A Hell Of A Device For Privacy, Because The More People Look For Something That's Not There, The Less Chance They Have Of Violating Who You Are. It's Like Going Out There With A Mask On, Without Having To Exercise Your Upper Body To Put It On.

Whatever I Was Able To Do With Those Experiences Certainly Contribute To Whatever I'm Able To Do As A Director. The Corruption In That Is That Most Of What I Acted In The Last 10 Years Was To Steal Film School Time From These Guys. Those Were The People I Thought I Could Learn From As A Director.

Well, I Think That When You Direct A Movie Or Write It. And In The Case Of The Two Movies I Did, I Wrote And Directed, They Occupy A Special Place For You.