I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.
I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.
When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.
Film directing has perfected my theater directing. I think when I first started directing, a lot of my stuff was very lateral; I was afraid to have the actors' backs turned away, afraid to put them too far upstage, and I think once I did more things with film, I got more interested in composition.
When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.
