1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Below: andystardust asked me …

1. You have the opportunity to meet and talk with one of the following directors: Robert Altman, David Lynch, Steven Soderbergh or Luis Bunuel circa 1972. Which do you choose and why?

Mmmm tough call. Probably Bunuel. He was still at the peak of his creativity in 1972, just about to win the Oscar, and I think he would have been receptive to talking with a young person. It would have been amazing just to have dinner with the man, talk about wine and cocktails. I would be interested to know what kind of coffee he liked. And I’d ask him about what he thought of Hitchcock. I would also take the opportunity to warn him (in advance) that he needed to keep 1977 free. That’s when Woody Allen asked him to make a cameo in “Annie Hall,” which he had to turn down because of a scheduling conflict!

2. Do you honestly think you will finish Pause of the Clock one day?

Yes. I think I will reach the point some day fairly soon when I have the time/resources to digitize the footage and make a new cut. Computer editing software is becoming increasingly cheap. It’s still very much on my mind. And when it is finished, I believe it will fulfill the goal I had when I started: to make a film that was partly documentary and partly fictionalized, a time capsule. Kind of like an experimental home movie.

3. Would you ever want to own a house? Why or why not?

Sometimes I think it would be really awesome to have a cabin the woods, a retreat where one could go to think, write, relax. I’d keep an apartment in the city but I’d have this little getaway spot. If it’s ever within the realm of financial possibility, I think I’d love it. But I don’t think I’d ever want a house to be my primary residence. Too big and lonely and complicated for day-to-day living.

4. What is it about David Byrne?

To me, David Byrne continues to have the essential magic ingredients for ultimate creativity: energy, curiosity, good taste, and an eclectic sensibility. It’s also true that I discovered him when I was about 13, a very formative age, and he opened up an amazing new world I hadn’t even imagined yet. “True Stories” showed me for the first time that a film could be about MORE than just telling a story. And today, David Byrne does whatever he wants, but in such a way that he doesn’t seem to be showing off or looking down on anyone. It’s like he’s saying, “Wow, look at this cool new thing I found! Try it out!”

5. Do you have sex with your friends, or do you become friends with your sex partners? Or both?

For me I don’t think it’s either/or: sometimes you can be friends first and then get physical, or a friendship can grow out of a fling. Either can be exciting. I feel like I can express affection as well as lust when there’s a friendship component to sex. Maybe I’m just idealistic. People complicate and confuse those things, but I feel like I can keep them separate. Seems like the friends-with-benefits situation is like something I strive for but never quite attain. Or sometimes it works for awhile, but then something changes. That’s okay too.