Very few facilities are designed to withstand this kind of severe flooding. You have to get in there and do an assessment of what the damage is.

They will have to take down some of those structures.

It will take a tremendous commitment to make the city economically viable again. It's going to hinge on a lot of factors, including the ability to pull the environment back together.

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

There's video footage of my 10th birthday where I'm wearing, like, a little pink T-shirt. Then my dad comes in brandishing a copy of 'Eraserhead,' going, 'Look what we've got for tonight!'

What's important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was young, a writing career that's reached a lot of different places.