No, I'm Not A Very Methodologically Pure

Even My Wife And Two Of My Children Are In "leaves Of Grass". Because I Love The Source Material So Much, It Was Really Easy To Write And An Utter Delight To Get To Direct Because I Had People Like Edward [norton] Elevating The Material And Surprising Me In Their Interpretations Of All Of This Stuff That's So Close To Me.

I Think The Consensus Among Our Generation And People Younger Than Us Is That We Do Have A Defining Challenge In The Moment, So I Do Like Being Involved In Something Bigger Than The Finger-doodling I Do In Art. It Stimulates Your Brain In Certain Ways.

You Never Make All Things For All People And Can't Always Pander To The Broadest Denominator. I Keep An Eye Toward Doing The Themes That Interest Me. Do They Move Me? Interest Me? Make Me Think? When I Run Across Something That Is Provocative In An Unsettling Way, It Appeals To Me.

See, I Don't Get The Sense That You Need To Direct At All. Sometimes I Get The Opposite Sensation From You, That You're Like, "i Really Should Go Do Something Else." But Then You Are Drawn Back In By A Particular Story, Like A Hangnail In The Brain.

Any Questions I Had About Whether A Redneck From Oklahoma Could Become A Brown Classical Philosophy Professor Ended When I Met Tim [blake Nelson].