I Love Working With Actors. I Do.

There Can Be A Blurry Line Between Laughing At The Expense Of A Character And Laughing At The Recognition Of Something Painful And True. But Blurry As It May Be, It Is Nevertheless Unmistakable, And Sometimes The Laughter I Hear Makes Me Wince.

One Thing I Want To Say: I Don't Like Victim Stories And I Don't Write Them.

It Is True That The Movie Is Perhaps My Most Politically-charged. The Story Is Thrust Into Motion By The Idea Of What Do You Do When Your 13 Year Old Daughter Comes Home Pregnant. And Not Only Is She Pregnant, But She Wants To Keep The Baby.

When I Go To The Movies, I Do Like To See Things That Surprise Me, A Little Bit, In Ways That Seem Truthful To The World That We Live In.

What's Most Insidious About Mtv Is That It Commodifies Precisely Those Things That Young People Believe Are Subversive. In Other Words, Subversity Itself Has Become A Commodity. It's All A Way To Trick Young People Into Believing That There's Something Unique About What They Do, But This Is All Completely A Corporately Designed Maneuver.