Ultimately, it has been a struggle- but I was in Minneapolis and Austin a couple of weeks ago, sitting in theaters with complete strangers watching this weird movie that Kirk and I thought up and I was excited to be making film.
No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.
I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
Violence is used to portray what happens in a film. It only helps portray the actors and what they do. I think it is more about the story, when you have something to play off of.
In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.
The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
The foundation for film acting is stage acting.
I want to make a film about a factory worker.
I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
This film "Hero" talks about the peace of Chinese people.
I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon.
Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.
I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.