I Want All Of My Films To

A Pitfall Of Making A Comedy With A Studio-and It's Also An American Cultural Thing-is That I Get Tired Of Being Encouraged To Go Always For Laughs.

I'd Love To Be A Director-for-hire And Get A Nice Paycheck And Captain One Of Those Big Ships, But I Think Studios Mistakenly Think I Want To Write What I Direct - Which I Don't. I Write Out Of Desperation, Because I Never Get A Script I Like, Other Than "nebraska." It's A Matter Of: What's The Screenplay? Is It Intelligent? Is It Human? I Don't Care What Genre, What Scale. I'm Here For The Movies.

I Think Cynicism Lasts. Sentimentality Ages, Dates Quickly.

In A General Sense, To Convert Any Short Story, Novel, Play, Or Opera Into A Movie, You Have To Re-rig It. Even Though They're All Narratives Over Time, They're Very Different Forms.

I'm Hoping One Day I Can Make One Really Good Film.