And Later I Thought, I Can't Think

I'd Come Into Filmmaking As A Painter So, For Me, Making 'good Will Hunting' Was Experimental Because I Didn't Know How To Do It.

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.

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.

My Art Teacher In Junior High Was A Very Out Gay Man And A Mentor To Me. He Would Tell Us About Greenwich Village And Show Us The 'village Voice' And Describe His Life, But It Was All Sort Of Subversive And Below The Radar.

I Knew About Heatmiser, And I Saw Them One Time At Pine Street [later Changed To La Luna], Which Was The Center Of A Lot Of Alternative Bands During The 80s. But I Didn't Really Know Too Much About Their Music.