No, I'm Not A Very

The More You Can Create That Magic Bubble, That Suspension Of Disbelief, For A While, The Better.

To Me, Achieving Tone, Achieving Consistency, Is Exactly The Job Of A Director. It Is To Be The Fusing, The Nexus Of A Whole Bunch Of People Contributing To The Complex Life Of A Movie. There Are Actors, There's A Cinematographer, There're Costume People, Set People, There Are All These Things, And You Somehow Have To Be The Person In The Middle Of It Who Is Making It All Synchronize Into The Same Magic Bubble.

If Nick Broomfield Never Found Anyone With Affection For Courtney Love, It's Only Because He Conspicuously Avoided The Countless Friends, Colleagues And Fans Who Appreciate Her Talent And Admire Her As A Person. But Then, Why Would Broomfield Have Opened Up His Film To Those Of Us Who Work With Courtney And Are Close To Her When There Are So Many Bitter Left - Behinds And Desperate Attention - Seekers Eager To Validate His Attack On Her Character? Inquisitors In Every Age, Scared Of Forceful Women, Have Used All Kinds Of Half - Baked Testimony To Whip Up Chants Of 'burn The Witch!'

When I Was About 16 Or 17, I Had A Teacher Who Took A Group Of Us To The National Theater In Washington, D.c., And I Saw Ian Mckellen Do His One-man Show - I Think It Was Called Acting Shakespeare - And It Completely Bombed Me; It Put The Zap On My Brain In A Big Way.

The Deeper You Go With The Character, The More You See The Layers Start To Peel Away. It's More Challenging To Me, But It's Also Just Interesting. Those Are The Things I Like To Watch. I Like To Watch The Evolutions Of Something.