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I Believe Movies Are One Of The Great American Art Forms And The Shared Experience Of Watching A Story Unfold On Screen Is An Important And Joyful Pastime. The Movie Theatre Is My Home, And The Idea That Someone Would Violate That Innocent And Hopeful Place In Such An Unbearably Savage Way Is Devastating To Me.

What I React Against In Other People's Work, As A Filmgoer, Is When I See Something In A Movie That I Feel Is Supposed To Make Me Feel Emotional, But I Don't Believe The Filmmaker Shares That Emotion. They Just Think The Audience Will. And I Think You Can Feel That Separation. So Any Time I Find Myself Writing Something That I Don't Really Respond To, But I'm Telling Myself, 'oh Yes, But The Audience Is Going To Like This,' Then I Know I'm On The Wrong Track And I Just Throw It Out.

I've Never Read Joseph Campbell, And I Don't Know All That Much About Story Archetypes.

Period Films To Me Are Very Often Alienating To The Audience. There's Very Often A Formality. A Staunchy Quality To Them That Comes From The Misenscene. It Also Comes From The Performances Of The Actors, Because They're Acting Victorian Which Really Means That They're Just Acting The Way They've Seen Previous Actors Act Victorian.

I Never Meet Anybody Who Actually Likes The Format, And It’s Always A Source Of Great Concern To Me When You’re Charging A Higher Price For Something That Nobody Seems To Really Say They Have Any Great Love For.