I Think I Came To

I've Been Joking That If Madonna Taught Us Anything, You've Got To Reinvent Yourself. I Think It's Important As A Filmmaker, As Any Person Working In The Arts, That You've Got To Try New Stuff And Challenge Yourself And Take Chances. I've Tried To Take A Chance With Every Film I've Done - I've Never Done It The Easy Way, And I Think That's Because That's What Excites Me, Is Making As Big A Mountain As I Can In Front Of Me, And Just Trying To Mount It.

I Had Some Big Ups And Downs When I Was In My 20s And The One Thing I Learned Was, No Matter How Low It Gets, Something Good Will Come Along - Something Always Comes Out Of That Dark Period.

I Was Always Writing About The Connection Between Man And Nature. I Grew Up In A Neighborhood That Was Right On The Beach, But The Beach Was Not Like A Beach You Would Imagine - There Was A Lot Of Pollution. And The Most Magical Thing To Me As A Kid Was Sea Glass, So I Wrote About That A Lot.

I Remember The Few Times That Happened To Me In Writing, Where You Basically Start Writing And You Look At The Clock And Six Hours Have Gone By And You're, Like, "whoa! What The Hell Just Happened?" And That Piece Ends Up In The Final Product Even Though The Final Product Is Three Years Away. It Doesn't Get Rewritten. It Came Out The Right Way. But That's Happened To Me So Few Times In My Life.

I Don't Think I Make Genre Films. I Think Studios Try To Sell Films As Genres Because They Know How To Do That. There's Nothing Wrong With That. I Don't Know What I Make. It's Sort Of A Pot Roast, All My Films.