

When you grow up in a place that is unremarkable and you yourself think you are unremarkable, you create your own remarkableness and maybe it is in some sort of internal resistance. We have shot a bunch of stuff in and around Chicago, but it is shots of interiors, or framed so we eliminate any traces of it being urban or interesting. I have been here for 20 years and I have still not made a film that has a shot of the skyline, train, etc.

Once I got here I realized that I had no business being in the city and certainly no business making work that was about the city.

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