New York is my home and I have a particular fondness for it. I think it's a place where you can generate any kind of story wonderfully. But I also would be very happy to make a film in Paris or Rome.
I miss the city Bret and I live in, Wellington. It's a good place to be creative, in the same way New York is.
Acting just seems to be a way of getting into a different place. It seems like a really creative place to be.
I bring people on to the movies to type and to help punch up and look at things. But a lot of it is, you want fun people to be around, to put you in a good mood, to try and access your creative place.
L.A. is such an exotic city to me, and it is just a big bubble. If you accept the bubble and accept how isolated it is. It can be a very creative place, and I find it easy to focus.
Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A.
I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.
I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.
I'm fully conscious of the fact that I wouldn't be the writer that I am without this place, without Vermont College.
