“I love backlight because it’s pushing the actors toward us. It’s really that sense of the halo of backlight, which for me, metaphorically, I think actors are angels. I mean, sometimes, you know, you can hate them, right? But I do think that...
“People think that this industry is very large, and it is, but it’s also very small, and a lot of people know a lot of people. So the best thing you can do is meet and talk to as many people as you can. I hire production assistants who don’t...
“He and I go to see the Beatles perform and I said, ‘What’s that guitar John Lennon’s playing?’ He said, ‘I think it’s a Rickenbacker,’ I said, off the top of my head, ‘Why don’t we go to the manager of the...
“In my mind…I need three items to create a scene that’s worthy of…devoting the time to make it interesting for the person driving by. I want someone, and I don’t mind that they look at them and think, “What’s that...
“In college, I was in Franklin Hall, a dormitory, and I used to go into the laundry room and I would practice and practice and practice, and, you know, people would be coming in and out of the laundry and I’m in there going, ah ah ah ah ah. I said, sorry,...
“Don’t tell me you want to be a writer….Just sit down and start writing….but if you’re going to write, you have to want to write. You can’t think that I’m going to be writing the great American novel. I’m going to write...
