Knowing When To Say Something And When

After A Brief Period In Which I Had Let Many A Southern Californian Convince Me That It Was All 'in My Mind,' I Am Once Again Officially Allergic To Dogs.

I Love Watching All Sorts Of Different Types Of Movies, But That Doesn't Mean They're Necessarily Movies I Want To Be Making. I'm Not Sitting Around Saying, "man, I'd Really Love To Direct A Western." That's Just Not Something I'm Probably Going To Do. But, I'm Just Looking To Work On Things That Both Feel Professionally Exciting And Personally Relevant.

I Think That The Mark Of A Great Book Is That It Will Meet You Wherever You're At And You'll Feel And Experience Something New And Different Each Time You Read It.

I Remember The First Day I Was Looking At My Hands And I Thought About My Nails. People Wouldn't Really Be Paying Attention To That, But A Civil War Doctor - What Would They Be Doing With Their Nails? Would They Cut Them Really Low? And Dr. Burns Said, "no, They Would Let Them Grow Out So They Can Scoop Stuff Out. They Would Use Their Nails." So For A While I Let My Nails Grow. They Were Too Long. I Kept Stabbing Myself By Accident, So I Cut Them Down, But I Was Trying To Be Faithful To The Details.

A Lot Of Times, We're Just Sold These Movies That Are Really Cynically Conceived And Marketed, And They Just Want You There Opening Weekend, Before Everybody Finds Out It's Not So Good.