There Are Only So Many

With Each One Of My Films, I'm Exploring One Of My Own Issues And I Try To Expose Myself A Little In The Film.

I Used To Have A Group Called Bad-movie Saturday. Every Saturday, Six Of Us Would Go See The Worst Movie That Came Out Each Weekend. It'd Be Noon In Burbank. It Was Just A Running Commentary. All Executives - We Would Each Talk Through The Movie And Make Jokes.

Selfishness, Narcissism, Being Uncomfortable In Your Own Skin, Not Feeling Connected To The World Around You, Feeling Dislocated From Family And Youth, Having A Strange Relationship With Your Childhood - All Those Things Feel Really True To Me.

I Remember When I Was Like 19 Years Old And I Started A Desk Calendar Company To Pay For My First Short Film, Just So I Could Say One Day That My Daddy Didn't Pay For My First Short Film. And I Really Established Myself In The Film Festival World.

I Hate Movies That Tell People What To Think. I'm Proud That Democrats Thought 'thank You For Smoking' Was Their Film And Republicans Thought It Was Theirs. I'm Proud That Pro-choice People Thought 'juno' Was Their Film And Pro-life People Thought It Was Theirs.