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The First Piece Of Art That I Ever Bought - When I Could Afford It - Was A Warhol Sketch From The Period When He Was Just Getting Out Of Doing Commercial Work And More Into Art. It's A Sketch Of A Young Guy's Face. I Guess The Gallery That I Bought It From Thought I Would Like It Because The Young Guy Kind Of Looked Like James Dean.

Did You Ever See Cheech And Chong's Up In Smoke? That's What Happens If You Really Smoke Weed And Make A Movie. You Get Two Guys And No Plot And It's Basically Like, 'yeah! Let's Drive A Van Made Of Weed!' And That's Pretty Much The Movie.

Almost All The Movies I've Directed Are Adaptations. And I Think What I Found When I Went To Film School, Where They Try To Push You To Find Your Voice Or Your Thing, Is That I Got A Lot Of Things Out Of Adaptations.

I Become Kind Of Obsessive About Research.

Quite Franc-ly, I Think I Am An Asset To This World We Live In. I Know That If I Didn’t Exist, There Would Be Some Truly Upset People Just Waiting For Me. A Life Without Franco Is Like A Kitten Without Fur. That’s What My Reflection Told Me.