When You Get To Be

When I Grew Up In The '60s, We Were Actually Dominated By This, You Know, Sort Of Conforming '50s Culture, Even Though We Were Like Trying To Express Our Own Culture, Like, The Dominant Culture Was The Thing That Was Forming Us. And I Think That That's True Today.

A Lot Of Times, I Relied On Connections Through My Agency, Just For Financing And Things Like That. Even When I'm Looking For A Million And A Half Dollars To Do A Small Film, There Can Always Be Hold-ups, Because It's A Large Amount Of Money For Some People, And It's A Small Amount Of Money For Other People. In Any Case, It's Significant Enough To Where You Have To Jump Through A Lot Of Hoops To Get It To Happen. Sometimes, The People Who Are Helping You Can Drop The Ball. And, Of Course, The Reason Agents Want You To Do Bigger Projects Is That They Make A Bigger Cut.

I Think Over The Course Of 14 Films, I'm Returning To A Place That I Know To Tell A Story... The Same Way Spielberg Returned To Fantasy, Lucas Returned To The 'star Wars' Saga, Or John Ford Returned To The Western.

I Try To Shoot The First Rehearsal Because People Are More Spontaneous. People In Real Life Don't Really Know Where They Are Going To Be Either Positioning Themselves Or How They Will Be Saying Their Words. When People Goof During The First Take, It Usually Looks Realistic.

I Used To Take Photographs Just To Remember People.