David Bluvband

So I tried to like use, that was the thing I tried to stuff the dollhouse with of like, how, how can this feeling push the story?

And I think at the end of the day, that's how I try to approach writing in general is how can I like, whatever I'm obsessed with or whatever I'm like going through right now, how can that be the engine that like I can fit into this dollhouse?

Oh, totally, yeah.

I used to take my X-Men action figures and make movies on my dad's DV camera.

Right.

I can reenact this scene from Citizen Kane with Cyclops and Wolverine.

Yeah, definitely.

I, um, I've always been into movies.

I would, I'd like definitely consider myself like a film buff or like, uh, an obsessive in that way.

Um, it's just always been a part of it.

And I grew up going to those types of theaters.

Like there's lots of them.

Like when I was younger, there were a lot more of them.

Where'd you grow up?

I grew up in, we moved around a lot, but a little bit in Queens, a little bit in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn.

And then my mom and I lived in Manhattan, like different places sporadically.

There's always a theater everywhere we went.

So there was always a place to go that was different and new and had a particular crowd.

I remember when I was a kid, there was this place called the Beekman 1-2 Theater.

And that was the very Upper East Side film buff of older people who were just like...