I Had Wanted To Do A Comedy.

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 Have This New Theory About Films. It's Almost Like Astrology, Where If We Started On A Tuesday The Film Will Be Different Than If We Started On A Wednesday. Not Because Of The Planets. It's That Sometimes You Start With The Wrong Balance And The Whole Thing Gets Messed Up.

My Art Teacher In Junior High Was A Very Out Gay Man And A Mentor To Me.

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.

If It Were Up To The Executives, They Probably Wouldn't Have Directors At All.