The Cutting Room Is Where

I Think Satire Is A Luxury Of Literate Middle-class People. People Who Are Well Fed And Relatively Secure In Their Beds Can Laugh At Their Troubles. They Can Enjoy Sitcoms. For Those Who Aren't Quite So Lucky, Well, The Irony Might Be Lost On Them.

I Have A Great Respect For The Moviegoing Experience. It's Such A Unique Thing. You're Not Getting Up And Walking Around The House Or Flipping Channels During The Dull Parts. You're In A Dark Space, And The Movie Fills Most Of Your Field Of Vision. You're Surrounded By Sound, And The Colors Are Deeply Saturated, And Faces Are Fifteen Feet High. If It's Done Well, You're Really Going To Feel Some Big Emotions Or Have Some Big Belly Laughs.

The Comic Edge Of Ghostbusters Will Always Be The Same. It's Still Treating The Supernatural With A Totally Mundane Sensibility. In The World Of Ghostbusting, There Are Certain Givens. You're Always Going To Have Some New Invented Technology, Some Pseudo-science That Sounds Right Because We Drop Enough Familiar Terms From Physics And Engineering, And Pseudo-methodology, Something That People Will Think They May Have Read Something About Before.

When A Director Writes, There's A Compulsory Arbitration. You Have A Right To Challenge Any Of The Arbitrators, But They Pick Three Of Four Arbitrators Who Read All The Drafts With No Names Attached And Then Allocate Credit.

I Used To Be Married To A Woman Who Pursued Every Spiritual Trend With Tremendous Passion And Dragged Me Along. I Don't Believe In Anything. I'd Seen Mediums And Readers.