I Just Want To Be Able To

As A Kid, I Spent Every Summer Bent Over A Stack Of Books, Obsessively Writing Detailed Reports On Each One.

People Have Always Wanted To Be Recognized, And That's Human Nature. But People Used To Want To Be Recognized For Their Accomplishments, And Now They Simply Want To Be Visible.

Los Angeles Is Often Described As The Nadir Of Vapidity, A Smog-choked Space Cradle.

I Actually Have Two Children Now, And Sometimes I Wonder If That's It. Because They Do Make Writing And Directing More Complicated And More Difficult, Especially Now That They're Very Young.

You Hear The Term "staying Grounded" A Lot When You're Coming Up In The Movie Industry And It's The One Word I Don't Really Understand Because It Implies Being Tethered Almost And I Don't Like That. Why Stay Grounded? You Might As Well Become A Complete Eccentric, Float Off Into The Sky And Burn Yourself On The Sun And Go Crazy.