Regarding your much talked about hiatus, have you distilled that down into a 20-word explanation yet?
Greta and I have done a lot of interviews together and I have heard her say “Failure” in response to that question (laughs). I had all these projects I was writing and I wanted to get them off the ground and I chose to do it incorrectly. I was trying to go the industry way, huge budget. I should have just gotten very determined, go down in budget, find the money privately, but I didn’t. And this film started going ahead, so I thought, do the one that’s going ahead nicely.

But scripts were written during that period.
Yeah, scripts were written and I hope to go back to them and make them.

Did this movie take a long time from first idea to production?
No, this one was actually the fastest script I’ve ever done. I couldn’t start it until after the writers strike was over in the spring of 2008. I had other things I was working on at the time so I couldn’t work on it full time and I finished it Christmas of 2009, but I was not writing all the time so for me that’s the shortest record. But I had thought about the script and the idea for it for ten years. Thought about it but wasn’t working on it at all.

When a film is finished, does it feel cathartic?
Not yet.

At what point does it feel that way?
Several weeks; I’m still worrying about production stuff; the video transfer of this and the sound of that.