I'm Usually Trying To React

With 'good Will Hunting,' Miramax Made Certain The Recruited Audience Wasn't Expecting To Laugh At Robin Williams Like They Normally Do. From My Limited Experience, You Can Really Blow Test Screenings By Conducting Them In The Wrong Way.

Because I Didn't Have Brothers, I Was Always Interested In The Kids Down The Street That Had Four Brothers In Their Family, So I Became One Of Them - But It Was Not My Family. I've Always Been Attracted To Temporary Families. They Tend To Be Lost Characters.

Yeah, Kubrick's A Big Influence. In Something Like 'a Clockwork Orange,' He Is Trying To Use The Practical Light - I Mean, At Least He Says That In His Interviews, Like They're Not Using Traditionally Hollywood Lights. In 'elephant' We Basically Used No Lights; We Never Really Adjusted.

I Was Once A Shameless, Full-time Dope Fiend.

In Rare Cases, I've Had Music Before I Shot The Movie. I Think That For 'good Will Hunting' I Had An Elliot Smith Record Or A Couple Of Them And I Just Somehow Felt Like The Sound Had Something To It That Reminded Me Of The Story. So In That Case There Was Music Beforehand.