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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.

All I Mean Is, I'm Not The Kind Of Audience Comedy Directors Want At A Test Screening Because I Seldom Laugh, And If I Do, It's Not Very Loud. That Doesn't Mean I Don't Like The Movie.

Compromise Is Part And Parcel Of Making A Movie. It's A Question Of The Kinds Of Compromises That You Have To Make.

There Can Be A Blurry Line Between Laughing At The Expense Of A Character And Laughing At The Recognition Of Something Painful And True. But Blurry As It May Be, It Is Nevertheless Unmistakable, And Sometimes The Laughter I Hear Makes Me Wince.

Part Of It Has To Do With This Business Of Being Approached In Public. I Have A Distinctive Look - It's Partly The Glasses I Wear - And People Seem To Remember Me Once They've Seen Me.