I Did A Couple Of Plays In

Caitriona Balfe, Who Is Irish, Is Also In My Movie. I Asked Her To Play Her Irish Accent In The Movie, But Her Own Brogue Is So Faint That I Had To Keep Pumping It Up.

'taxi Driver' Was The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me, And I Didn't Become A Weirdo And Squawk Like A Chicken.

I Fantasize About Having A Manual Job Where I Can Come Home At Night, Read A Book And Not Feel Responsible For What Will Happen The Next Day.

I Was Raised With A Single Mom And We Had A Very Specific, Very Particular Relationship. She Worked With Me And My Job. I Was Almost Three And We Traveled Everywhere Together And She Was Really In My Life In A Really Profound Way. The Most Significant Relationship Of My Life. It Was Beautiful And Also An Incredible, Difficult Struggle. I Know How Creative That Life Is, And How Difficult It Is To Figure It Out.

Every Movie Changes You. The Process Of Making A Film Changes You. You Have To Be Obsessed, You Have To Get Up At 3 In The Morning And Go "wait, I Have An Idea!" You Have To Continually Be Drawn Over And Over Again To Deepening Inside That Story, And Ruminating Over Questions: "why Would He Say This To Her? Why If He Was Standing There, Would She Go?" Every One Of Those Answers Has To Come From Some Personal Place, And In Order To Do That, You Can't Sit On The Surface. It's Such A Big Change That You Can't Really Explain It To Anyone Else.