[In contrast to Cobain, though, Blake is never seen using drugs (even if it's clearly hinted at).] I thought there were things that were more important, ... I didn't want it to be all about the drugs - they were an easy way of getting into a whole different type of story.

Free time keeps me going.

You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.