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When Part Of What You're Trying To Get At Is The Truth Hidden Under A Taboo, Or When You Want To Nail A Hypocrisy, Laughter Is A Very Useful Tool. I Want To Show The Painful Side Of Existence, But There Is No Question I Also Want To Make People Laugh.

What Makes Me Put Pen To Paper? You Know, That's The Million-dollar Question. I've Been Writing Since I've Been Reading. It's Not A Question I Think That's Even Meant To Be Answered, But It's Something You Always Seek To Discover The Answer To. And The Process Of Filmmaking Is One Of Discovery, And Self-discovery At That. Pleasure... It's Not Exactly What I Would Call Fun, But It's Absorbing.

Some Directors Hardly Talk To The Actors At All.

In Particular, People Have Trouble Understanding Where I Stand In Relation To My Characters, And Very Often This Gets Reduced To Me Making Vicious Fun Of Them.

You Always Have To Be Ahead Of The Audience So That They Have To Always Catch Up And Know The Movie's Not Quite Going Exactly Where You Think It's Going, Or Expecting It To Be Going.