There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.
The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.
You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.
We had two cameras, so they could turn it on and shoot as much as we wanted. You don't have to worry about wasting money on film. A lot more takes are possible.
High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.
Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.
I'm more of like a recreational surfer, not a consist surfer. Some people get out every week or every day.
I'm most interested in working and learning from different people and telling good stories.
In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen.
I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.
I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.
I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school.
I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.
I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?
I got to work with Gene Hackman for six weeks, side by side, 12 hours a day.
I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.
Every single day of making a movie is going to bring new problems.
Miramax can buy a small independent movie that isn't very good, but because it has great relationships with different theaters, it can get into a big theater.
