Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys.

About a year ago, out of the blue, I just wrote a bunch of songs.

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.

What we see is what they're trying to sell us.

My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing.

Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

I don't think I've ever had a plan or direction for myself. I've actually made decisions based more on what I didn't want to do than what I wanted to do.