I write with music. I write scenes in movies that hopefully can earn the use of some songs that are powerful to me.

I try and direct environmentally . So that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'Action'. So that they can literally be swimming in the warm water and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.

I always loved movies, but I never thought I would presume to be a screenwriter and definitely not a director.

I used to see a lot of cocaine. There were journalists who used cocaine and didn't write about it and I didn't write about it. I would never do drugs, so I would always get the same response from people: "Smart kid, more for me." Whether it was a joke or sincere or both, but I was just happy not to be in there partying with the band like some of these other journalists.

What you believe one day isn't what you believe the next day and I think every writer secretly believes that they may never be able to do write good song or script again, but they can.

I always loved song writers who wrote songs in the first person, so it's kind of like that.