If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down.

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.

I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents.

I had wanted to do a comedy.

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.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.