I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.

Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.

Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.

Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.

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