I Like Actors Who, When You See

I Spend A Long Time Casting, But Once I've Cast A Film There's A Reason Why I Selected Those People. So I'm Hands-on In Selecting The Cast, Hands-off To See What They Do With Their Characters, And Hands-on Again To Offer Suggestions.

I Don't Want All Of American Cinema To Be Big Cartoons That Are Just Made To Be Digested By The Entire World.

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.

A Pitfall Of Making A Comedy With A Studio-and It's Also An American Cultural Thing-is That I Get Tired Of Being Encouraged To Go Always For Laughs.

What Science-fiction Premises Do Is It Gives You A "what-if" Prism To Look At The Contemporary World With A Wack On The Side Of The Head.