No One Is Asking What

I Think You Get In Trouble If You Make Experimental Big Studio Films.

Editing Rooms Are Kind Of, By Definition, A Bubble Of You And The Editor And What You're Thinking. It's A Truth-telling Thing To Watch It Through Someone Else's Eyes, Is To Get Another Level Of Real With Your Material. Like, "maybe That's Not That Funny. Maybe That's Not As Interesting. Maybe That's Redundant To Something Else. Maybe We Can Cut Down." I Don't Know. It's A Brutal, Honest Process. You've Got To Be Pretty - You Can't Be Sentimental. You Have To Be. It's A Cold Process. You Can't Be Nostalgic. You Have To Make Those Tough Decisions.

I'd Be Fine If There Weren't Film Festivals, And You Just Made Your Films And Didn't Have To Do Anything From That Point On. That Would Be Really Great, Wouldn't It? I Don't Know. I'm In Kind Of An Aloof Time, Where I'm Not Taking Anything Too Seriously.

I Did The Newton Boys And During The Whole Process Of Making The Film, I May Have Spent A Week In Los Angeles.

Everything That You Could Think About In Life, Or Experience, Or Be Interested In, Theoretically Should Be Expressed Or Dealt With In Cinema. But The Way Typical Narratives Are Set Up, There's No Room For Philosophy, Because It's Just Digressive Material. It's Not Advancing The Plot, So There's No Place For It. It's The Kind Of Stuff You Would Cut Out, And That You Shouldn't Have Put In There To Begin With.