As Long As You Keep The Audience

I Have Felt Over The Years A Definite Progression Or Arc From Feeling Guilty About What I Had Done With The First One [film], Because Certainly There Was All That Fundamentalist Guilt That Came Pouring Back In.

When I Was A Kid, I Was Taken To Something Called Telenews In Cleveland By My Best Friend's Father. My Own Father Was Gone By The Time I Was 5, I Think, But This Man Would Take Us To Telenews At The End Of World War Ii, And We'd Watch All These Newsreels. I'd Seen Real Stuff. That Kind Of Stuck In My Mind.

If You're In A Theater, People Are Texting, All Around You. You Have The Little Glowing Screens Everywhere. Think Of How Annoying That Can Be.

A Lot Of Life Is Dealing With Your Curse, Dealing With The Cards You Were Given That Aren't So Nice. Does It Make You Into A Monster, Or Can You Temper It In Some Way, Or Accept It And Go In Some Other Direction?

People Who Are Kind Of At The Cutting Edge Of Life And Survival, And Being Near The Nitty-gritty, Like My Films, And I Like That.