I Would Be More Frightened

If We Put The Camera On Ourselves, Our Friends And Neighbors, We'll Come Up With Some Scary Stuff.

I Was Always Looking For The Most Dramatic Emphasis. One Example Would Be The Letter Writing, Or The Reading Of The Letters. If You Remember From The Book, They Find The Letters And Then In The Most Undramatic Way They Take Them Downstairs, They Get Approval, They Sit At A Table During The Day With Their Own Author, Across From Each Other.

I Wanted To Tell A Story That Interested Me As Much In The Telling As In The Watching.

Just In The Past Few Years - Since I've Been Making Movies, Which Isn't A Very Long Time - You Now Have A Culture That Is Fascinated And Informed About The Box Office In A Way That Sometimes Filmmakers Weren't Even.

Without In The Company Of Men, I Could Still Be Teaching, So Who Knows If This Would've Existed.