I Was Once A Shameless,

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.

The Area Of Teenage Life Is Not Necessarily Rarefied; We've All Gone Through That Period. It's Not As Rarefied As A Western Or A Space Adventure Or A Gangster Film, But It Has Its Own Dynamic.

Now The Music Industry Is Sort Of Like A Craigslist Venture, Right? Where You're Making Your Own Records And Selling Them Online.

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.

I'd Come Into Filmmaking As A Painter So, For Me, Making 'good Will Hunting' Was Experimental Because I Didn't Know How To Do It.