I'm In My Mind A Lot. I

From My Vantage Point In Writing A Story, I Can't And Don't And Have No Interest In Thinking About The Level Of Sophistication Of The Audience. I Can Only Think About What Interests Me, And Maybe What I Would Want To See If I Were Watching The Movie. To Me, That's The Key To Writing Something That's Not Pandering.

There's No Way To Approach Anything In An Objective Way. We're Completely Subjective; Our View Of The World Is Completely Controlled By Who We Are As Human Beings, As Men Or Women, By Our Age, Our History, Our Profession, By The State Of The World.

I Think Now That I've Tried Directing, I'm Not Interested In Doing Adaptations Anymore. I Could Do An Adaptation Of Someone Else's Work That I Would Write, But The Idea Of Taking Someone Else's Material Entirely Doesn't Interest Me. One Of The Things That I Found Really Helpful, At Least In My Mind - And I've Never Discussed This With The Actors Or With The People I Work With - Is That Being A Neophyte In Directing, I Feel Like I Have A Kind Of Authority Simply Because I'm The Writer As Well.

If You Ever Got Me, You Wouldn't Have A Clue What To Do With Me.

I Like Titles That Are A Little Difficult, Because It's Kind Of Counterintuitive.