I Definitely In Filmmaking More And More

That's How I Like To Do It With Actors, Have Them Really Go For It And I'll Tell Them When It's Too Much. It's Always Easier To Bring It Back Then To Push It Further.

Were "a Clockwork Orange" Or "blue Velvet" Released Today, Would They Have The Same Power To Shock That They Had When They Came Out? Are We Too Inured By That Torrent Of Images And The Ridiculousness Of Modern Political Life, So That Nothing Shocks Us Anymore? What Does It Take To Shock Someone Today - Or At Least Jolt Them? I Don't Have An Answer. I'm Just Asking The Question.

Adult Movies With Any Artistic Credit Are Released In The Last Quarter Of The Year And Expected To Gird For Battle For Globes And Oscars. So The Films Aren't Being Seen Just For Themselves, But Rather In A Competitive Context.

A Lot Of Documentaries Have Been Made Very Quickly, But I Think They're Like Frogs In An Ecosystem: They're Harbingers. Film Is Always Two Or Three Years Behind, Because It Takes So Long To Write A Script, Get Financing, And Get It Made. It Just Takes A While. But I Think It's Coming. It Has To.

The Thing Is, Right Now The Films Don't Need To Be Overtly Political To Be About Our Times. We Also Need Films That Are Just Human, That Are About People. People Need That, Too. It's Like We Need To Reconnect To What It Is To Be Human. Not Just What Our Political Situation Is. That's Not What I'm Thinking About Exclusively. Human Content Is Needed Again, As It Was In The '70s. I Think Films Were More Human Than They've Been Since Then.