To Make A Movie About

I Was Raised By My Mom. She Taught Me How To Be A Gentleman; Nobody In The Movies Taught Me. I Think People Are Raised By Their Parents. If You're Raised By Movies, It's A Whole Other Set Of Problems. I Don't Think It's As Simple As Me Saying Movies Are Meant To Entertain, But I Certainly Don't Feel Moral Responsibility In Putting This Out In The World And Being Like, "ok, This Is Going To Affect How Guys Make Decisions Because They See Some Of My Films Or Whatever." I Just Don't.

Music Is Just One Of The Tools A Director Has With Which To Paint And I Think It's One Of The Most Effective.

There's Such An Awkwardness To Most Heterosexual Male Relationships. You See Women Who Are Friends, And They Kiss Each Other Good-bye, And They're Just So Much Warmer With Each Other. But There's This Thing With Guys Where, Even Between Best Friends, There's A Standoffishness.

It Becomes Pretty Crystal Clear Once You Watch That First Assembly [movie Cut] The Things That Are Just Grinding It To A Halt, So To Speak, Or Slowing It Down, Or Getting In The Way, Yeah.

Directors Tend To Be More Underrated Than Overrated Because It's A Quiet Job And People Don't Really Understand It.