going back to the beginning and they
said it's supposed to be led to plow and
slacker what your most vivid memories
from those films those early films say a
lot about you threw bet for better or
worse you know remember having a really
strong point of view of what I was doing
but being completely insecure about if I
was on there you know mm-hmm the lack of
experience you have to it you have to
deal with that's what I love about these
high school girls man I get older they
stay the same age
I'll see what with Matthew McConaughey
in Dazed and Confused can you remember
the first time you met him yeah he came
in on an audition remember and look at
me now shaking my hand and I was
thinking this guy's not quite right and
he's too good-looking he's too you know
I imagine the guy more sleazy he was too
you know but then he just became that in
the audition he just became Wooderson I
was just like okay don't shave don't cut
your hair can you grow a mustache Ashton
you know just like how to make him
you know and he did that you know two
months later he was kind of yeah me too
so I read that took about nine months to
cast fair I'm the first before samurais
film what was it that you're
particularly looking for and they see
sometimes you can hardly articulate
exactly what you're looking for but
you'll just know it when you see it I
think looking back I was looking for the
two most intelligent creative kind of
spark of life and collaborators smart
and that fit together too
you know there's a lot of people that
but who do they mesh with so it did take
a while it was a long long process
substitute just a mr. cheaply no it
means I was drunk yesterday so a lot of
the fun of that movie was creating it
was like making a musical you know we'd
create a lot of music from scratch to to
make it work
whether they're rehearsing it or
performing it so it was fun getting it
on its feet we would you know constantly
would rehearse on the weekends as we
were shooting kind of perfecting the
final number and spent a lot of time in
the studio so it was a hybrid between
music and film
but a very fun very very fun great kids
they're all grown up now they're all
like you know how to college it may just
be my imagination it's not human you
know everything feels different you know
you're making a new movie you have a new
story a new goal even if it kind of
looks like the same this felt very
different than everything else while
you're doing it it has to so yeah
they're all they're all different but
the tonal qualities
yeah if what you're doing is pretty much
darker and it's approach or its point of
view of the world but I like that you
need to mix it up
was there ever a point where you thought
this isn't gonna work no no it was never
really a point where I didn't think it
wasn't working I did the the end was so
far away those first six or seven years
that it was just kind of an abstract
thing you were very much doing what that
year required what you needed to do but
it was yeah it's hard to explain how
that the mentality of a change but a
gain momentum no booze in this house -
no girls upstairs I'm seriously worried
about these new guys so fun this was
like going back to college parties you
know discos bars the cast really carried
it they had so much fun to it I got like
a contact high just seeing how much fun
they were having made it really fun for
me too and we had just enough time and
money to do it right you know it's like
a low budget you know he's film but it
was it was just fun fun fun just great
cast how do you think you've changed
from days to this I don't know I think I
was a little more confident a little
more experienced maybe but I felt kind
of the same I was having to regulate
that you know when I did days I was
relatively young not that much older
than the cast I was more like their
uncle this one I had to kind of admit
I'm sort of like dad you know they're
the age of my daughter you know the cast
but I still felt I was had a pretty
immediate connection but I had to admit
a lot of time had gone on thirty years
plus years and it was a different
culture they didn't really know much
about like disco dancing and all that
but to see them jump in and have a lot
of fun with it was it was it was
inspiring and it was fun to share this
little episode in my own lives history
you know with with the world I guess
you