I Find Nice People Kind

Growing Up Sucks, Doesn't It? I Understand Why People Wouldn't Want To Get Old - But It'd Be One Thing If We Became A Culture Obsessed With Eating Right, Doing Yoga, Going To Therapy And Becoming At One With Ourselves. That Be Great. But We Don't Do That. We Seem To Be Obsessed With All The Wrong Ways To Stay Young.

Selfishness, Narcissism, Being Uncomfortable In Your Own Skin, Not Feeling Connected To The World Around You, Feeling Dislocated From Family And Youth, Having A Strange Relationship With Your Childhood - All Those Things Feel Really True To Me.

With Each One Of My Films, I'm Exploring One Of My Own Issues And I Try To Expose Myself A Little In The Film.

I'd Done Table Reads For My Own Screenplays, And I Always Thought They Were So Much Fun. Why Couldn't We Do These For Other Classic Screenplays And Bring Them To Life? You Can Experience Live Theater, Where You Get To See Plays Produced By Different Directors And Different Casts, But There's Really Nothing Like That For Movie Scripts.

I Have A Strange Fascination With The Midwest. I'm Waiting To Find Out That My Parents Are Actually From The Midwest. I Grew Up In Beverly Hills, Up The Street, And I Just Feel Comfortable There. I've Shot In Minneapolis, In Detroit, In St. Louis, In Omaha - They Would Say They're The Plains, Not The Midwest - And I Love It.