If We Put The Camera

People Think My Work Is Therapeutic. I Don't See It That Way. It's Not Like I'm Saving Money From A Weekly Therapy Visit By Writing Down My Life.

I See Bits And Pieces Of Me In All The Characters In My Films.

But Even With A Character Like Cary Who Is Relatively Outlandish, At The End Of The Movie He's In A Place Where I Wouldn't Have Expected Him To Be - Taking On The Responsibility Of A Woman Who Is Pregnant And Who Used To Be His Best Friend's Wife.

I Wanted To Tell A Story That Interested Me As Much In The Telling As In The Watching.

You Start As An Audience Member And Create A World You're Interested In, And Then You Move Into The Telling Of Those Stories, Bringing What Has Interested You As An Audience Member.