I Learned To Choose My Battles. Sometimes

In Writing Scripts Now, Having Made A Film, I'm Much More Conscious Of What It Means To Shoot And Edit A Movie, And That Affects The Writing.

I Like Movies That Are About Real People In Real Time With Real Problems.

There's Something Melancholy About Professors Because They're Chronically Abandoned. They Form These Lovely Relationships With Students And Then The Students Leave And The Professors Stay The Same. It's Like They're Chronically Abandoned.

You Can Say Something That Can Really Help And Actor And You Can Say Something That Can Really Get In The Way Of An Actor's Performance, Kind Of Cut Them Off From Their Instincts And Really Get Into Their Heads. And Every Actor's Different. Every Actor Requires Something Different. Being An Actor, For Me, Was The Greatest Training To Be A Writer And Director.

I Went Through This Very Serious Woody Allen Phase In College And A Little Bit After College. I Still See His Movies.