Everyone Is Encouraged To See

We All Give Ourselves A Lot Of Leeway, But We Want Consistency From Other People.

That's The History Of Art - You Have To Consider Yourself Fortunate If You Ever Get Acknowledged. If You Have A Critical Success That's Also A Financial Success And That You Feel Good About... If Things Line Up, That's Pretty Rare.

All I've Learned Is That You Need The Studio System Sometimes, If Your Budget Is A Certain Size, And Other Films You Can Do Independently. When I Think Of A Studio, I Generally Think Of Distribution. Since I'm A Director, I Have A Similar Creative Experience On Every Film I Do, Because I Can Control That. But Then It's A Different Film, I Think, As It Reaches The Public, Depending On The Way It's Marketed. I Don't Know. I Haven't Learned Much Of Anything. Sometimes You Need Them, Sometimes You Don't. Sometimes They Want You, Most Of The Time They Don't.

I've Always Been Most Interested In The Politics Of Everyday Life: Your Relation To Whatever You're Doing, Or What Your Ambitions Are, Where You Live, Where You Find Yourself In The Social Hierarchy.

I Always Sensed Instinctively From The Earliest Age That I Was Being Lied To.