If You're In A Theater,

If You're In A Theater, People Are Texting, All Around You. You Have The Little Glowing Screens Everywhere. Think Of How Annoying That Can Be.

You Can Look At What's Happened To America In The Last Years And Say A Lot Of People Were Asleep. A Lot Of People Were Not Staying Awake And Watching What Was Going On And Facing The Pain Of That And Dealing With It.i Don't Care If The Rest Of The Audience Doesn't Think Along Those Lines At All, Because The Audience Is A Huge Spectrum Of People, From People Who Are Introspective To People Who Just Want To Be Scared And Have Fun, And All The Points In Between.

When I Was A Kid, I Was Taken To Something Called Telenews In Cleveland By My Best Friend's Father. My Own Father Was Gone By The Time I Was 5, I Think, But This Man Would Take Us To Telenews At The End Of World War Ii, And We'd Watch All These Newsreels. I'd Seen Real Stuff. That Kind Of Stuck In My Mind.

I Came From A Very Strict Background. [so If You Want To Make A Scary Movie] If You Were Raised As A Fundamentalist, Just Pull All The Skeletons Out Of Your Closet.

People Who Are Kind Of At The Cutting Edge Of Life And Survival, And Being Near The Nitty-gritty, Like My Films, And I Like That.