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When You're Working On A Creative Thing, Everyone Has An Idea, And They're Pushing It. The First Time You Work With Anybody, You Have To Get Comfortable With The Way Another Person Pushes Hard For What They Want. Familiarity Breeds Contempt, People Say. But I've Found, For Creative Things, Familiarity Breeds Peace Of Mind, Because You Realize You Know Someone Better. You Trust Each Other. You Know Not To Take Things A Certain Way, Or A Wrong Way. You Get To Where You Don't Have To Waste Quite So Much Time With Diplomacy. Things Are A Little More Efficient.

I'm A New Yorker, You Know.

I Think The Consensus Among Our Generation And People Younger Than Us Is That We Do Have A Defining Challenge In The Moment, So I Do Like Being Involved In Something Bigger Than The Finger-doodling I Do In Art. It Stimulates Your Brain In Certain Ways.

When I'm Looking For Zen And I'm Not Saying This Facetiously At All - I Would Really Rather Surf, Scuba Dive, Or Fly My Plane. And, When I Feel Tension About The Grind Of Work, It's Not Getting The Money To Make Films Versus Making Films That Constitutes The Grind, It's All This Stuff.

For Keeping The Faith, I Looked At [george ] Cukor's Old Films Like The Philadelphia Story, Stuff That's Hilariously Funny And Really Smart With A Cutting Critique In The Humor, Too. With This, When I Read It, I Was Laughing A Lot.