Acting Is The Hardest Job In The

I Don't Think It's A Director's Job To Peek Behind The Curtain Too Much.

It's So Hard To Do Anything That Doesn't Owe Some Kind Of Debt To What Stanley Kubrick Did With Music In Movies. Inevitably, You're Going To End Up Doing Something That He's Probably Already Done Before. It Always Seem Like We're Falling Behind Whatever He Came Up With. "singin' In The Rain" (1952) In "a Clockwork Orange" (1971) - That Was The First Time I Became So Aware Of Music In Movies. So No Matter How Hard You Try To Do Something New, You're Always Following Behind.

My Older Sister Was At The Cusp Of New Wave, And I Had Older Brothers From My Father's First Marriage Who Were Rock 'n' Roll Guys, So I Was Exposed To A Lot Of Popular Culture.

Screenwriting Is Like Ironing. You Move Forward A Little Bit And Go Back And Smooth Things Out.

My Dad Was This Sort Of Avant-garde Guy Who Did All Kinds Of Weird Things. He Was A True Original And Anybody Who Met Him Never Forgot Him.