I Have My Ideas Of

My Family Moved A Lot As A Kid. We Started In Colorado, Where I Lived For Five Years. We Moved To Chicago For Two Years, To San Francisco For One Year, Connecticut For Seven, Oregon For A Couple Years, And Then I Went To School.

I Don't Think American Independent Films Have Ever Really Been Particularly Experimental, Except For The Original Guys From The '60s Who Were Huge Influences, Like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, And Stan Van Der Beek. They Were The True Independents.

Silent Is About Needing To Make A Scene Shorter By Having Physical Things To Cut To. That Way, You Can Manipulate A Character To The Other Side Of The Room. But, If They Say The Wrong Thing, It Might Locate That Action In A Particular Part Of The Scene. It's A Mechanical Need.

There Are All Kinds Of Ways That People Present Their Films, But That's Kind Of A Good Feeling, If You Can Make It Seem Like The Characters Are Really There.

I Was Petrified Because All My Friends Would Be Going To Washington, Dc, To Protest. I Was Sixteen, And I Was Like, "i Don't Think I'll Be Going With You Guys," Just Because I Was Scared. Then You Saw The News, And Cops - Not Students In Schools With Guns - Cops Are Killing Sixteen Year Old Protesters On The News. To Me That Was More Horrifying, To Have The Authority Figures Actually Killing People On The Evening News, Than To Have Another Student Firing A Gun.