The Only Thing Hard About Being An

I Wanted To Be A Forest Ranger Or A Coal Man. At A Very Early Age, I Knew I Didn't Want To Do What My Dad Did, Which Was Work In An Office.

I Had No Idea What I Wanted To Do With My Life, So Nothing Of What I Was Studying Seemed To Fit. I Know Now That I Should Have Taken Advantage Of That Time And That I Missed A Great Deal Of The Opportunity To Educate Myself.

The Thing I Always Guard Against When I'm Talking To People I'm Working With About A Script Is That There's A Thing I Don't Like And It's Called "talk Story." It's When You're Talking About The Story; The Characters Are Tasked With Talking About The Story Instead Of Allowing The Audience To Experience The Story.

Directing Is Too Hard, It Takes Too Much Time, And It Doesn't Pay Very Well.

The Capacity To Create [visual] Effects In The Computer Has Made The Job Easier, But It Has Also Introduced The Complexity That You Can With A Few More Keystrokes Generate Such A Busy Canvas That The Eye Doesn't Know Where To Go. You Lose Human Scale On An Event And You're Just Wowed By The Kinetics And The Visualization. But, Often In Those Cases I Feel You Lose Touch With The Human Characters And What It Is That They Would Feel And How They Might Feel, And That's Still The Most Important Part.