My Mother Wouldn't Even Let Me Read

A Collection Of Masks, Depicting Historical Figures In Life And What I Like To Call The Eternal Repose.

The Experience Of Going To A Theater And Seeing A Movie With A Lot Of People Is Still Part Of The Transformational Power Of The Film, And It's Equivalent To The Old Shaman Telling A Story By The Campfire To A Bunch Of People. That Is A Remarkable Thing, If You Scream And Everyone Else In The Audience Screams, You Realize That Your Fears Are Not Just Within Yourself, They're In Other People As Well, And That's Strangely Releasing.

People Who Are Kind Of At The Cutting Edge Of Life And Survival, And Being Near The Nitty-gritty, Like My Films, And I Like That.

I Have Felt Over The Years A Definite Progression Or Arc From Feeling Guilty About What I Had Done With The First One [film], Because Certainly There Was All That Fundamentalist Guilt That Came Pouring Back In.

I Wrote, I Think, Half A Dozen Films That Were Completely Out Of Genre. Comedies, Love Stories, Even One Serious Film About Vietnam, And We Couldn't Get Backing For Any Of It. And We Both Sort Of Drifted From Making, At That Time, Serious Money On Last House To Going Through It All In The Course Of Almost Three Years And Only Getting Offers To Do Something Scary Again.