Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways.

Young people know how to use these social networking tools, and they know how to use them effectively.

Everyone thinks that Fight Club is a very important and successful film, but it was a massive box-office failure. Massive. It was a big flop by any commercial-release standard. And it's been a huge hit on DVD. Everything that movie has become has been on DVD. So you can't stake your sense of creative success on this whole box-office-performance matrix, because if you do, you're going to be disappointed most of the time.

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?