I was certainly more vulnerable, in a sense, but I also felt more open to it, ... Elizabethtown.

It felt like a faraway place that was still home,

Ultimate vulnerability. That’s manly.

I felt it was appalling. That was a real vulnerable part of our country.

The question is where do we go from here? The answer is -- life.

I liked the idea of fiasco as failure gone to church, ... How does that become a transcendent thing? And that morphed into the different mini-themes.