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I Was Petrified Because All My Friends Would Be Going To Washington, Dc, To Protest. I Was Sixteen, And I Was Like, "i Don't Think I'll Be Going With You Guys," Just Because I Was Scared. Then You Saw The News, And Cops - Not Students In Schools With Guns - Cops Are Killing Sixteen Year Old Protesters On The News. To Me That Was More Horrifying, To Have The Authority Figures Actually Killing People On The Evening News, Than To Have Another Student Firing A Gun.

As I Do With Most Films, I Try And Find Some Music That You Could Use Throughout, Not Just A Sampling Of Lots Of Different Artists.

The Area Of Teenage Life Is Not Necessarily Rarefied; We've All Gone Through That Period. It's Not As Rarefied As A Western Or A Space Adventure Or A Gangster Film, But It Has Its Own Dynamic.

It's Easy To Keep Score At A Football Game Because It's Just How Many Times You Get The Ball Over The Goal. But, When You Ask An Audience To Tell Us How Many Times The Invisible Ball Got Over The Invisible Goal, And They Go, "well, It Was 46," They're Just Making It Up. So, If You're Listening To That, As Though You're Actually Listening To The Score Of A Football Game, You're Misleading Yourself.

Wong Kar-wai Is A Really Great Inspiration. He's Always Referred To As The Jimi Hendrix Of Filmmaking.