My Stuff Always Starts With

I Believe We Have Two Ideas About How Movies Are Made In Our Heads. Idealizations. Platonic Ideals. One Of Them Is Of A Movie That Is Completely Uncontrolled, And Another Is A Movie That Is Completely Controlled. The Auteur Theory Vs. Cinéma Vérité.

There's A Line I Love In Conan The Barbarian Where Someone Says, "that Used To Be Another Snake Cult, Now I See It Everywhere." That's Certainly True Of Documentaries. I Wouldn't Say It's Ubiquitous, But It's Become Close To Ubiquitous. It's Everywhere.

Maybe [killers] Is One Of My Real Passions. Why Deny It?

Recently It's Become Much To My Surprise, Something That Does Happen. For Example, I Used To Get Almost All Of My Stories, And It's Probably Still True, From Newspapers. Primarily From The New York Times. No One Ever Really Thinks Of The New York Times As A Tabloid Newspaper And It Isn't A Tabloid Newspaper. But There Is A Tabloid Newspaper Within The New York Times Very, Very Often.

Ecstatic Absurdity: It's The Confrontation With Meaninglessness.