I'm More Interested In Characters

I Have Cultivated A Little Crew Of People Whose Opinions I Understand. It's Like The Way You'd Follow Certain Film Critics Because You Know What Their Criteria Are, And You May Not Agree With Them, But You Can Glean From Their Opinion How You Will Feel About A Film.

I Think That Gulf Is What Makes The Work Interesting, But As A Creator It's Endlessly Frustrating Because I'm Starting Out With This Goal, This Thing I'm Trying To Create, And Then The Thing I Actually Do Create Is Very, Very Different. It's Always Painful, In Some Ways, Especially When It's Just Finished.

Writing A Screenplay, I'm Like, "all I'm Responsible For Is That Final Script, And I Take Great Effort And Pride In That." But Once I Give It To Someone To Make, I Can Disassociate With It Entirely And Not Worry That My Vision Isn't Being Represented, Because I Understand Fully That That's Not How It Works.

Something I Always Wanted To Do, To Capture That Later Half Of The '70s. It's Like The Early Half Of The '70s Is Still The '60s, In That There's Still Kind Of A Playfulness And Inventiveness In Terms Of Design And The Things That Were Going On In The Culture. The Second Half, It Got Much More Commodified. It's Possibly The Ugliest Era Of Architecture And Clothes And Design In The Entire 20th Century, From 1975 To '81 Or '82.

Before I Could Read, I Remember Trying To Piece Together The Stories From The Images. It Was A Very Primal Experience.