If It Were Up To The Executives,

Modern-day Cinema Takes The Form Of A Sermon. You Don't Get To Think, You Only Get To Receive Information.

There's A Lot Of Films That Have Relatively Rigid Road Maps Because They Have A Script And Others That Are Less Rigid Because They Have Less Of A Script, Like 'elephant.' The Road Map Becomes More Interpretive, Maybe, Than One With A Detailed Script. Editing-wise, They All Have Their Problems.

Apparently There’s This Kind Of Songbird That Thinks It Dies Every Time The Sun Goes Down. In The Morning, When It Wakes Up, It’s Totally Shocked To Still Be Alive—so It Sings This Really Beautiful Song.

Wong Kar-wai Is A Really Great Inspiration. He's Always Referred To As The Jimi Hendrix Of Filmmaking.

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.