You Are What You Love. Not What

As A Writer, Or As A Filmmaker, You Have To Present Yourself, And Part Of What Yourself Is Is What You're Interested In, Or What You Think Is Funny, Or What You Think Is Sad, Or What You Think Is Horrible.

I Graduated From College In 1980.

People Will Say Things After A Screening That It Affects Them In A Certain Way, Which Is Why I Don't Like To Explain What Certain Things Are About. I Want Them To Have That. It Limits People's Ability To Understand Something If I Say It's "about This." That's Happened To Us A Bunch On This.

I Know That As A Very Young Child, I Was Afraid Of Death. Many Children Become Aware Of The Notion Of Death Early And It Can Be A Very Troubling Thing. We're All In This Continuum: I'm This Age Now, And If I Live Long Enough I'll Be That Age. I Was 20 Once, I Was 10, I Was 4. People Who Are 20 Now Will Be 50 One Day. They Don't Know That! They Know It In The Abstract, But They Don't Know It. I'd Like Them To Know It, Because I Think It Gives You Compassion.

I Think You Just Assume That Your Memory Is Just Sort Of A Video Playback Of Your Experience, But It's Nothing Like That At All. It's A Complete Refabrication Of An Event And A Lot Of It Is Made Up, Because You're Filling In Spaces.