The Only Way To Do Something Interesting

Say Who You Are, Really Say It In Your Life And In Your Work. Tell Someone Out There Who Is Lost, Someone Not Yet Born, Someone Who Won’t Be Born For 500 Years. Your Writing Will Be A Record Of Your Time. It Can’t Help But Be That. But More Importantly, If You’re Honest About Who You Are, You’ll Help That Person Be Less Lonely In Their World Because That Person Will Recognise Him Or Herself In You And That Will Give Them Hope.

Directing Was A Big Learning Experience For Me Because I Had To Deal With Every Aspect Of Everything-all This Constant Decision-making, With People Asking You Questions At Every Moment, And You Have To Have Answers For Them All.

You Spend Most Of Your Time As A Director Trying To Move Forward With The Movie. It Happens On A Daily Basis, If Not More Than Once A Day, That You Are Struggling With Budgetary Constraints. Whereas When You're Writing, The Limitation That You Have Is Your Imagination. So It's Decidedly Non-pragmatic.

And So Not Only Do You Have To Make That Work, You Can't Really Start Putting The Thing Together In Any Form Because Some Of The Shots Are Very Short And Obviously Many Of Them Take So Long, You're Waiting Months And Months And Months Before You Can See If It's Going To Be Working Emotionally.

As A Writer, Or As A Filmmaker, You Have To Present Yourself, And Part Of What Yourself Is Is What You're Interested In, Or What You Think Is Funny, Or What You Think Is Sad, Or What You Think Is Horrible.