In Drama, I Think, The Audience Is

On The Downside, To Paraphrase Thom Yorke Talking About The Music Business, We're Still Having To Deal With The Stench Of The Last Fart Of The Dying Corpse Of This Regressive Vision That America Is A White, Middle-aged, Male, Conservative Country.

To Me, Achieving Tone, Achieving Consistency, Is Exactly The Job Of A Director. It Is To Be The Fusing, The Nexus Of A Whole Bunch Of People Contributing To The Complex Life Of A Movie. There Are Actors, There's A Cinematographer, There're Costume People, Set People, There Are All These Things, And You Somehow Have To Be The Person In The Middle Of It Who Is Making It All Synchronize Into The Same Magic Bubble.

If Two People Are At Completely Different Stages In Their Spiritual Life, That Can Present A Real Problem.

People Think Because I Went To Yale That That Implies Privilege, And It Is A Privilege In The Sense That It's An Incredible Opportunity.

Just Because You've Made A Couple Movies, You've Done Some Good Movies, You've Been Nominated For Some Academy Awards, Whatever, Nobody's Entitled. It's A Business. If They Don't See It, I Can Think They're Wrong, But I'm Not Entitled To A $15 Million Budget To Make A Film.