And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.

A lot of times, I relied on connections through my agency, just for financing and things like that. Even when I'm looking for a million and a half dollars to do a small film, there can always be hold-ups, because it's a large amount of money for some people, and it's a small amount of money for other people. In any case, it's significant enough to where you have to jump through a lot of hoops to get it to happen. Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball. And, of course, the reason agents want you to do bigger projects is that they make a bigger cut.

I had wanted to do a comedy.