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If You Try To Make Interesting Films, You're Going To Be Disappointed Most Of The Time. I Choose Just Not To Look At It That Way. I Don't Look At American History X As A Failure, Or Fight Club As A Failure, Or 25th Hour As A Failure, Or Larry Flynt As A Failure, Or Any Of The Movies That I Care About That I've Made That Were Not Immediately Successful. I'll Stand With Those Movies Any Day Over 90 Percent Of The Movies That Came Out At The Same Time That Made A Hundred Million Dollars

Even My Wife And Two Of My Children Are In "leaves Of Grass". Because I Love The Source Material So Much, It Was Really Easy To Write And An Utter Delight To Get To Direct Because I Had People Like Edward [norton] Elevating The Material And Surprising Me In Their Interpretations Of All Of This Stuff That's So Close To Me.

Making Really Great Music, Making Really Great Films, Writing Great Books Is An Antidote To All Of That. And, As People, As Artists, Some Of The Massive Disruption That Technology Is Causing Is So Exciting, The Way That People Can Share Creativity Now.

I Always Felt That Acting Was An Escape, Like Having The Secret Key To Every Door And Permission To Go Into Any Realm And Soak It Up. I Enjoy That Free Pass.

I Think It's A Total Fallacy For People To Say, "you Couldn't Make Those Old Movies Today." I Think There's More Ways To Get A Movie Made Today Than Ever In The History Of The Entertainment Industry. It's A Very Exciting Time To Work In Movies, If You're A Creative Person Looking To Make A Very Personal, Weird Vision.