I Tend To Read Things That Are

In Writing Scripts Now, Having Made A Film, I'm Much More Conscious Of What It Means To Shoot And Edit A Movie, And That Affects The Writing.

I Think A Lot Of Civil War Stuff Is Written - As They Say, History Is Written By The Victors. And One Of The Things That I Think Is Fascinating About This From A Purely Dramatic Perspective Is Whether Someone Is Right Or Wrong, You Understand Where They're Coming From In This.

Here's The Problem: I Don't Like Who I've Become When My Iphone Is Within Reach. I Find Myself Checking E-mails And Responding To Texts Throughout The Day With Some Kind Of Pavlovian Ferocity - It's Not A Conscious Act, But A Reflexive One.

There's Something Touching About A Kid Who's Reading A Book That's Printed On Actual Paper. I Think That Anything That Kids Start Reading, Within Reason, Can Lead To Other Discoveries.

An Obsessive Attention To The News, I've Realized, Only Serves To Paint A Picture Of The World As A Throbbing Blob Of Dysfunction, Most News Falling Somewhere On A Scale From Disappointing To Calamitous.