A Movie Takes On Its Own Life,

We Say We Embrace Humanity, But What Does That Mean? We Are All Defined By Our Limits, So To What Extent Can We Embrace All This? Because We All Contain Within Ourselves Equally The Capacity For Kindness, As Much As For Cruelty Or Evil. And The Best Of Us Are Able To Suppress Those Baser Impulses, Instincts. That's The War Within.

That Is Definitely A Misunderstanding Between Me And A Part Of My Audience. To Be Honest, I Am Often Unsettled By The Responses Some People Have Had To My Movies, And That Includes Many People Who Like Them.

What Makes Me Angry Is The Idea That People Would Be Going To A Movie Because Of What I Said About It. It Makes Me Feel, I Don't Know, Arrogant, Self-important, Self-aggrandizing, Whatever. Like I'm Being Used.

I Think, In Fact, There's A Plus And A Minus To Knowing My Prior Work, Happiness And So Forth. The Plus Is Of Course You Can See How I Play With The Characters, The Storylines, And The Way Things Play Off Each Other. And The Minus Is That It Makes You A Little Bit More Self-conscious, That You're Not Able To Enter The Movie As It Exists And Lives And Breathes, Because You're So Busy Making References, Connections That You're Not Able To Release Yourself From And Take The Film On Your Own Terms.

Usually The Audience Has No Idea That The Censored Version Of Whatever Movie They're Watching Isn't The Original.