People Cant Help How They Look.

I Think, In Fact, There's A Plus And A Minus To Knowing My Prior Work, Happiness And So Forth. The Plus Is Of Course You Can See How I Play With The Characters, The Storylines, And The Way Things Play Off Each Other. And The Minus Is That It Makes You A Little Bit More Self-conscious, That You're Not Able To Enter The Movie As It Exists And Lives And Breathes, Because You're So Busy Making References, Connections That You're Not Able To Release Yourself From And Take The Film On Your Own Terms.

At Eleven I Was At The Peak Of My Creative Powers: I Was Writing Stories And Playlets, Putting Together Poetryprojects. I Was Absorbed By My 'work.' At Twelve I Was No Longer Reading Or Writing, Just Counting Off Days And Checking Them Off. I Was Interested In Survival.

That Said, Be Mindful, To Someone Who's Never Seen Any Of My Work, It's Just A Movie With Actors. So It's Only Those Who Of Course Know The Earlier Work That Will See Something Is Afoot, So To Speak. But I Don't Want To Intellectualize.

I Don't Make Movies With The Idea That People Are Going To Walk Out Of Them Feeling Comfortable Or Better About Themselves Or More Secure In Their Own Biases Or Opinions.

Some People See Me As Dissecting My Characters In Some Kind Of Heartless, Coldblooded, Analytical Way, When In Truth Making These Movies Is A Passionate, Intensely Emotional Experience For Me. I'm Detached From The Characters Only To The Degree That I Have To Be In Order To Write Honestly About Them.