My Art Teacher In Junior

My Art Teacher In Junior High Was A Very Out Gay Man And A Mentor To Me. He Would Tell Us About Greenwich Village And Show Us The 'village Voice' And Describe His Life, But It Was All Sort Of Subversive And Below The Radar.

In Rare Cases, I've Had Music Before I Shot The Movie. I Think That For 'good Will Hunting' I Had An Elliot Smith Record Or A Couple Of Them And I Just Somehow Felt Like The Sound Had Something To It That Reminded Me Of The Story. So In That Case There Was Music Beforehand.

Digital Information, For Every Type Of Storage, Is Unfounded. If Everything Is On A Hard Drive And The Hard Drive Freezes Up, Your Whole Photography Collection Could Just Go Away. We Can Still Look At Printed Photographs Of Our Grandparents. We Can Physically Hold Them In Our Hands And Look At It.

Because I Didn't Have Brothers, I Was Always Interested In The Kids Down The Street That Had Four Brothers In Their Family, So I Became One Of Them - But It Was Not My Family. I've Always Been Attracted To Temporary Families. They Tend To Be Lost Characters.

Wong Kar-wai Is A Really Great Inspiration. He's Always Referred To As The Jimi Hendrix Of Filmmaking.