I wonder if I had gone for laughter and tears from the start how sad (the movie) would've been. |
I'd worked with Orlando on a Gap (clothing shop) commercial and because I hadn't seen Lord of The Rings , to me, he was a totally contemporary guy and I loved working with him. |
I've done some of the same things that Orlando does in the movie, for sure, |
I've got to pick up the pace, |
I've taken that road trip, |
If you were on a desert island and you could only bring along five records from the past five years, what records would you bring? |
In Southern California, there's that feeling of people in transit. I grew up in Southern California, so whenever I ran across a world where your relatives stayed, and they lived a few miles away, and you have the roots that are really strong in your community, that always felt like a wonderful romantic notion. And this [movie] was about discovering this whole root system that you didn't realize you had. |
In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about. |
is longer and has more soul. |
It blew my mind, ... There were two girls who acted out the poster of the movie. They had a little red sofa by the side of the road. One was dressed up in a black suit like Orlando with a black wig and an urn. And the other was Kirsten with the champagne glass and her legs crossed; it was so sweet. I was truly in shock. |
It could go either way, |
It felt like a faraway place that was still home, |
It used to be, like, the sanctity of rock was that you could never let a song of yours be used in a commercial. It was like, 'Oh man, we'll never let our music be exploited that way.' Now they'll call you up and say, 'You gotta use this song in your movie, man. It's the new VW ad! People love it.' And you realize, boy, have times changed. |
It's emotionally autobiographical, |
It's hard to do, |