I Just Couldn't Go Back

Though [john] Hughes Did Provide For Us, If We Wanted, To Go To A Local High School And Try To Blend In. Michael [hall] And Molly [ringwald ] Already Had School To Go To With Their Tutors. Ally [sheedy] Wanted Nothing To Do With High School. She Said, "i Remember It Fine. I Don't Want To Go Back." Which Is Great. So Emilio [estevez] And I Went. And Emilio Lasted A Couple Hours Because People Recognized Him From The Outsiders That Had Already Been Out, So His Cover Was Blown.

It's Strange, 'cause A Play, You Start At The Beginning And You Go All The Way Through To The End. So It's Naturally Very Well Rehearsed And You Get A Rhythm And A Flow. In Film, You Can Shoot The Ending Before The Beginning. It's Very Odd. And It's Like A Craft You Have To Learn.

Just Because You’ve Only Been Alive For Fifteen Years Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Anything Except Old. That’s All It Means. It Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Experienced. It Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Intelligent. It Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Sensitive. It Doesn’t Mean You Take Things Less Seriously. It’s Like, These Are Younger Human Beings, Meaning Don’t, Because They’re Only Ten, Start Thinking That They Don’t Know What You’re Talking About -because They Do. Don’t Leave People Out In The Cold, And Don’t Talk Down To People -don’t. It Never Works Out.

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.

It's Great To Work With People That You Like, Any Job, No Matter What You Do.