My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I got into a bad jag of movies that helped pay the rent and I thought would help further me along.
I did a movie called 'Clueless' when I was first starting out. And with that paycheck, I went and bought a car, which I had no use for, because I lived in New York City, where you can take a train for a dollar anywhere. But instead, I bought a $20,000 car with a $12,000 check.
In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.
The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.
When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, 'When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't.'
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.
I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment.