Directing, Editing, And Everything About

I Was A Black Center In The Middle Of All The Nature. I Was Nothing, But I Could Do Anything.

If You Just Read The Book, You're Taking In The Narrative, You're Taking In The Characters, You're Understanding It In A Certain Way. If You Make A Movie It's Really An Act Of Translation.

I Guess It's Ironic. I Just Did The Gucci Cologne Ad, And I Was The Cologne Thief In Junior High.

I Put Out A Lot Of Different Kinds Of Material, And Maybe People Read That As Egotistical. Or Maybe, Since A Lot Of It Does Involve Some Aspect Of Me, They Find It Self-aggrandizing. But There’s A Long Tradition Of Artists Using Themselves. Look, I Know I’m Not Perfect. And, Who Knows, Maybe A Part Of It Has To Do With Self-obsession. But It’s Also About Using This Weird Thing That Is A Public Persona As Raw Material For Creative Projects.

Sometimes It Is Painful To Be Oneself; At Other Times It Seems Impossible To Escape Oneself.