I met "Skateboard Bruce" in the same spot in the valley I'd met Joby a few days earlier. His real name was Bruce Cram but he went by the nickname Skateboard Bruce, which I have to say, seemed really fitting, even though I never heard him mention owning a skateboard.

When I was about seven years old, I remember driving to my best friends birthday party with my mom. I was riding in the backseat and we were already running late. As we inched our way up La Cienega approaching Santa Monica Boulevard, I saw a mother and her two...

Over the four year period I spent documenting homeless people living in Los Angeles, very few of my subjects actually provoked genuine fear within me. But Joby was different, despite the immediate love and affection I felt for him, there was something about him that I sensed was unstable. It...

One of the first people I met while filming on the streets was Joby. It was a Saturday afternoon. I was driving around North Hollywood looking for homeless people to interview. This was becoming my routine.

Off of Riverside Blvd, around Lankershim on a tiny little dead end road, I...

In August of 2003, I started filming homeless people all around Los Angeles.

Four years later my experience became my first feature film, a personal documentary, called WITHOUT A HOME.

I was twenty-three years old when I began and I had no idea what I was doing. I was...