Sweets, You Couldn't Ignore Me

Part Of The Reason I Thought That I Might Do A Series Is, My Dad Has Pretty Much Been On The Same Road To Work For Years And Years. And It's Like, "could I Do Something Like That? Am I So Independent That I Can't Punch The Clock At The Same Place?" So Part Of It Was A Kind Of Exercise. "can I Be Responsible In This Way?" And Lo And Behold, I Could. Luckily. It'd Be Bad If I Couldn't.

Just Because You’ve Only Been Alive For Fifteen Years Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Anything Except Old. That’s All It Means. It Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Experienced. It Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Intelligent. It Doesn’t Mean You’re Less Sensitive. It Doesn’t Mean You Take Things Less Seriously. It’s Like, These Are Younger Human Beings, Meaning Don’t, Because They’re Only Ten, Start Thinking That They Don’t Know What You’re Talking About -because They Do. Don’t Leave People Out In The Cold, And Don’t Talk Down To People -don’t. It Never Works Out.

It's More Like The Inner Workings Of John Bender. He Feels Like He's Been Given A Short Shrift, He's Not Been Provided The Opportunities That Maybe These Other Kids Have. So He Feels Like He Begins In A Hole. And Instead Of Trying To Raise Himself Up, He Wants To Bring All Of Them Down. That's A Dynamic That's Pretty Universal. And So That Was The Real Foothold On That. It Wasn't Like, "oh, My High School Experience Is Like John Bender's [in St. Elmo's Fire]."

[john] Hughes Is A Great Loss, I Think. He Was The First Filmmaker That Could Look At Someone Who Was Young Without Seeing Them As Being Less.

When I Was In College, All The Pretty Women Were In The Theatre, So I Auditioned For A Play.