I Have A Bit Of A Rebellious

I Have A Bit Of A Rebellious Nature.

The Situation In The Film Is Like Me Going Out To Venice Beach And Talking To A Homeless Guy On The Boardwalk, And 13 Years Later He's The President.

There's Also Some Element Of Coming Of Age During The Reagan Administration, Which Everybody Has Painted As Some Glorious Time In America, But I Remember As Being A Very, Very Dark Time. There Was Apocalypse In The Air; The Punk Rock Movement Made Sense.

I Was Never A Joiner. I Tried - I Had People I Admired And Liked And Wanted To Hang With, But I Ended Up Starting A Theatre Company And That Took Me Back To Chicago... I Guess I Wasn't A Scenester In The End. Something Must Have Worked Out Right, As I'm Still Here - But I'm Only A Binge Socialite.

A Lot Of People Know That Something Very Drastic Has Happened To The Very Idea Of America.