A Movie Takes On Its Own Life,

Some Directors Hardly Talk To The Actors At All.

Storytelling Is The Only Studio Movie Where The Censorship Is Perfectly Clear, The Only Studio Movie With A Big Red Box Covering Up A Shot. I Take Pride In That - And, Of Course, In Having Avoided The Fate Of Eyes Wide Shut.

Casting Is Everything. If You Get The Right People They Make You Look Good.

What's Most Insidious About Mtv Is That It Commodifies Precisely Those Things That Young People Believe Are Subversive. In Other Words, Subversity Itself Has Become A Commodity. It's All A Way To Trick Young People Into Believing That There's Something Unique About What They Do, But This Is All Completely A Corporately Designed Maneuver.

So Much Of What A Pet Is About For Us Is That It Becomes A Vessel For Yearnings, Dreams, Illusions, Hopes And So Forth. It's A Projection Of The Ultimate Innocence And Purity. That's Why It's Hard To See A Dog In Its Dogness. That's Why, When Some Harm Comes To A Dog, It's Much Harder For An Audience To Deal With That, More So Than Dealing With Harm That Comes To A Child Or Anything Human.