I'm Not A Craftsman Of

L.a. Is So Isolated And Unhip In A Way; It Gives You Room To Figure Out Who You Are And Explore More Personal Stuff.

There's Great Sadness And Life Doesn't Work Out Like You Would Want, On A Lot Of Levels, But There's No Need To Feel All Alone. This Happens To Everybody, So There's No Self-pity. This Is The Ride That Humans Are On, And All Of It Is Essential For Our Natural Part Of It.

Life Is Too Short For A Half-rack.

There's Some Movies I Watch, They're Kind Of Like My Anti-anxiety Pill, My Anti-depressant Pill. I Watch Them At Least Once Or Twice A Month Probably. And I Never Stop Learning From Them As A Filmmaker.

My Experience, With Both My Parents, Is That Grief Has A Lot Of Down, Sad Things, But I Was Also Really Emotionally Raw, In The First Year After Each Of Them Passed. Flowers Smelled More Intensely, My Relationships Were Hotter, And I Was More Willing To Risk. I Was Going For It A Lot More. I Was 'unsober' And I Wasn't Playing By My Rules.