I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western.

I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

In rare cases, I've had music before I shot the movie. I think that for 'Good Will Hunting' I had an Elliot Smith record or a couple of them and I just somehow felt like the sound had something to it that reminded me of the story. So in that case there was music beforehand.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.