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I Think There Are Many Advantages To Not Knowing Any Of My Prior Work. The Narrative Threads, I Think, Are Totally Accessible To Anyone Who May Never Have Heard Of Me. There's A Beginning, A Middle, And An End - I Don't Think There's Going To Be Any Confusion There.

There Can Be A Blurry Line Between Laughing At The Expense Of A Character And Laughing At The Recognition Of Something Painful And True. But Blurry As It May Be, It Is Nevertheless Unmistakable, And Sometimes The Laughter I Hear Makes Me Wince.

When I Want To Show The Kind Of Meanness People Are Capable Of, To Make It Believable I Find I Have To Tone It Down. It's In Real Life That People Are Over The Top.

I Mean, There Are Many Other Directors Who Are Probably Both More Skilled And Excited To Adapt Novels Or Work Within Certain Genre Conventions. I'd Like To Do That Kind Of Work Someday, But For Better Or Worse I'm Too Drawn By My Own Material.

The Funny Thing Is, Strangers Still Seem To Feel Comfortable Coming Up To Me And Saying Things, But Now Usually It’s Because They Recognize Me, And They Say Nice Things.