00:00Coming to you, James.
00:12Once I discovered baseball, that's all I did.
00:17I think I'm old enough now to recognize that this obsession with baseball just turned into an obsession with art.
00:25I see my life as very continuous now when I look back at it.
00:32The eve of my sophomore year, I remember I was playing left field, batting third in the lineup,
00:37playing as good as I ever played, and then had this heart rhythm thing. Couldn't run.
00:42It was almost like a career-ending injury.
00:46There's something satisfying about playing sports or making movies
00:52that you kind of set up goals and problems for yourself and you solve them.
00:57I was finishing editing, Slacker. You were in town.
01:01It was that time we were watching Sweet Smell of Success.
01:04In one of the movies, we were in the room and we were like into the last ten minutes of the movie.
01:09And you made a joke, like someone enters the room and you just said kind of casually,
01:14and then we just go off with those two people and the movie goes right at the climax of the movie.
01:18And I kind of got quiet. I was like, oh man, I just did a whole movie about that.
01:22I talked with my students today about I'm not interested in them making another good film
01:27because there's a lot of good films, but I'm interested in students finding a new language,
01:33a new way of working, of pushing to make the film culture grow in a sense.
01:40What is that frustrating?
01:45What does that mean?
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