Draft: Tim Robbins

I did three movies in the 90s.

Bob Roberts, Dead Man Walking, and Cradle Will Rock.

And I'm proud of all three of those movies.

And then I took some time off because I had kids and I wanted to be around more.

And when I direct, I kind of check out.

And so I stopped directing for a while.

And then when I started wanting to direct again about seven or eight years after that, the landscape had changed a bit.

And the kinds of movies that I wanted to do were not...

You know, people weren't lining up to give me money to do them.

So I started just doing things on my own.

And so I've got quite a few projects that I've put on the shelf or in cardboard boxes.

And about a couple years ago I just started getting everything out.

I hired some people to help me do an archive.

And I realized I've got a lot of things, a lot of movies and short movies and interviews and documentaries that I have, and I'm working on doing final edits on all of them right now.

So over the course of the next year, I'm going to be releasing my own material.

Because I mean, like to know a little bit about you, and I know I think more than a little, like you are not the kind of person that kind of like waited for the job and then like went on to the next job.

It seems like you were always creating, whether it was your own theater company, whether it was directing your own material, writing.

So these were the side pursuits that just kind of kept you alive, kept you engaged with the world?

It kept me engaged completely.

I would go from project to project to project.

So if I was acting in a movie, probably at the end of that movie, I was headed off to direct something that I'd written at the actors gang.

So there's also those plays that I did over that course of time that I've filmed them all.

filmed live performances yeah they're not films but they are documents

of what i was doing creatively is it must be very surreal for you i'm sure some of these things like you don't even real remember actually i mean you remember making them in some capacity but they must ignite a lot of memories of like where you were at the time

what happens is you go from project to project and you you leave it behind because you're working in a new genre or a new milieu and you go full on into that.