Director's Notes: As it turns out, people like comedies. They would rather laugh than think. They prefer to chuckle than to cry. And, in Film School, comedies can make you popular enough, so others will give you the kind of freedom to make the movies you really want.

Making this short is the equivalent of sucking a producer’s dick so you can get your little art house project made. You feel dirty while doing it, and then when everything’s said and done, the taste in your mouth isn’t as bad as you thought it would be.

Basically, I made “Jason Goes to Work” so that they’d have faith that I could make a movie about a little girl dying of a peanut butter kiss. I was so sure they’d love it and I would be a god in their mortal eyes.

… They hated it. With a fiery passion.

But what I’m most known for (and what my father considers my best work… thanks Dad) is “Jason Goes to Work”. What surprised me was how well people reacted to it. It was kinda shocking. It has an audience. That just blows my mind. It went from people goofing off in someone’s backyard, pretending the boom pole was a stripper pole, to something that makes people laugh.

I have no idea where the idea came from. And I can’t remember much during the shooting process… I was sick, and they fed me so much medicine that I was in a drug induced trance for most of it.

You really never know what you’re going to get when you cast your friends in the roles. But as it turns out, Christian was born to play an asshole… probably because he is an asshole. Christopher Hein, who gave the brilliant performance as Jason, has been in almost every movie I shot after that. Then there was the screaming girl in the beginning… who Sebastian Aguirre (the slow clap office worker—who’s slow clap doesn’t speed up at any point if you watch—it’s hard to teach the Spanish anything), he had hired this girl because he thought she was hot. We had no idea if she could actually scream and act scared… I think he met her on the bus. But everything seemed to come together in the end… which is practically a miracle. - Ryan Doyle