I Don't Feel Despair Because

The Worst Thing For People To Say About Your Movies Is, "yeah, It Was Pretty Good, But It Was Too Damn Long.".

The Thing Is, Right Now The Films Don't Need To Be Overtly Political To Be About Our Times. We Also Need Films That Are Just Human, That Are About People. People Need That, Too. It's Like We Need To Reconnect To What It Is To Be Human. Not Just What Our Political Situation Is. That's Not What I'm Thinking About Exclusively. Human Content Is Needed Again, As It Was In The '70s. I Think Films Were More Human Than They've Been Since Then.

The Kindest Thing A Director Can Do Is Look With Open Eyes At Everything.

A Lot Of Documentaries Have Been Made Very Quickly, But I Think They're Like Frogs In An Ecosystem: They're Harbingers. Film Is Always Two Or Three Years Behind, Because It Takes So Long To Write A Script, Get Financing, And Get It Made. It Just Takes A While. But I Think It's Coming. It Has To.

I'm Attracted To Short Screenplays. Nobody Really Wants A Film To Be Over Two Hours, Or At Least I Don't.