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My parents are stuck in India.
Theyve been there since February.
It started off as a work trip, but lockdown in India keeps extending and so do their flights.
My parents are strict vegetarians.
Now so am I. I make Indian filter coffee the same way my parents do.
I work out of my dads office.
I even started wearing some of his clothes around the house, just as casualwear.
Thankfully, she hasnt raided my moms closet.
Its an interesting time.
My filmRunwas just about to come out [on May 8], and now suddenly it isnt.
You graduate film school to make movies that come out in theaters.
Youve accomplished the dream.
To have that taken away is not a fun feeling.
Do I wantRunout in theaters in a year?
Or do I want the film out now, on digital?
That is the question I ask myself all the time.
All I want forRunis for people to get to see it.
Hopefully within the next year, but [the delay] givesusmore time to work on the next thing.
Ive always been a creature of habit.
So Ive tried to create [consistency at my parents house].
Then Ill tackle all my to-dos for work.
Zoom after Zoom after Zoom after Zoom, writing emails, trying to be creative.
Its an idea I came up with in 2013.
But it was always bigger than I could execute with the resources I had.
I wanted to go more step-by-step.
Can we leave an audience on a negative note?
The TV project were pitching is a show that has a lot of tech elements, likeSearching.
Sev [Ohanian] and Nat [Qasabian] are going to produce.
Im going to direct the pilot and the finale, maybe a few episodes.
But neither of us wrote it.
I started with heists Inside Man, Oceans Eleven, [1956s]The Killing.
The 1969Italian Jobis spectacular, and I had no idea it was that good.
What are the elements of this heist movie that it shares with that heist movie?
Now Im on a legal-thriller slash courtroom-drama kick.
I rewatchedA Few Good Men.
That holds up.A Time to Killwas a surprisingly good Grisham adaptation.
I thoughtMichael Claytonwas incredible.
I hated it when I was a kid I obviously just didnt understand it.
Its so thoughtful and quiet and sublime.
I saw12 Angry Men.
Thats a masterpiece, no matter how you cut it.Three Kingswas amazing.
And as a brief trip outside [my work] subgenres, I sawBad Education.
But its my favorite thing Ive seen all year.
Ill have a go at watch, at the very least, one movie a day.
I just feel really good when I am.
Im studying why [the filmmakers] did that, why they cut there.
There is that element to things.
What Im betting on is stuff thats uplifting, stories that have a the world is togetherness to it.
Maybe something that says, Were gonna be all right.
At least, thats what I want to see.
I watchedContagionin the beginning [of quarantine], and I was horrified the whole way through.
How many times have you thought youve had it?
I remember how I was two months ago, like: I touched that doorknob!
I gotta wipe the doorknob!
I gotta wash my hands!
Every day that goes by, that fear for better or worse ticks down a little bit.
Therell be a way that we can navigate safely, once we get to that point.
But until we do, Im a fan of the lockdown.
Im certainly not a fan of these [anti-lockdown] protests.
And until my parents get on a flight back, Ill be them.
Replicating, replicating, replicating, replicating.
