I Just Couldn't Go Back

Part Of The Reason I Thought That I Might Do A Series Is, My Dad Has Pretty Much Been On The Same Road To Work For Years And Years. And It's Like, "could I Do Something Like That? Am I So Independent That I Can't Punch The Clock At The Same Place?" So Part Of It Was A Kind Of Exercise. "can I Be Responsible In This Way?" And Lo And Behold, I Could. Luckily. It'd Be Bad If I Couldn't.

Breakfast Club Was Great Because We Had A Real Rehearsal, And We Shot Primarily In Sequence.

It's More Like The Inner Workings Of John Bender. He Feels Like He's Been Given A Short Shrift, He's Not Been Provided The Opportunities That Maybe These Other Kids Have. So He Feels Like He Begins In A Hole. And Instead Of Trying To Raise Himself Up, He Wants To Bring All Of Them Down. That's A Dynamic That's Pretty Universal. And So That Was The Real Foothold On That. It Wasn't Like, "oh, My High School Experience Is Like John Bender's [in St. Elmo's Fire]."

[in The Dark Backward ] Someone Who Has Writer's Block And Kills People In A Cabin By The Lake. I Guess He's A Type Of Serial Killer, But I Don't Know.

[kevin] Costner Said, "you Don't Have To Do That... This Is A Wide Shot, So You Can Calm Down."