The End Is Built Into The Beginning.

As A Writer, Or As A Filmmaker, You Have To Present Yourself, And Part Of What Yourself Is Is What You're Interested In, Or What You Think Is Funny, Or What You Think Is Sad, Or What You Think Is Horrible.

In A Lot Of Movies, Especially Big Studio Ones, They're Not Constructed In Any Other Way Than To Get People To Like Them And Then Tell Their Friends. It's A Product.

Scary Is Time Passing And Sickness And Dying And Regret And Isolation And Loneliness And Relationship Problems - As Opposed To A Guy In A Hockey Mask, Which Didn't Seem That Scary.

From My Vantage Point In Writing A Story, I Can't And Don't And Have No Interest In Thinking About The Level Of Sophistication Of The Audience. I Can Only Think About What Interests Me, And Maybe What I Would Want To See If I Were Watching The Movie. To Me, That's The Key To Writing Something That's Not Pandering.

I've Had To Deal, A Lot, With My Own Sense Of Intimidation At Meeting Famous People - Especially Actors, But Really Any Famous People.