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That's The History Of Art - You Have To Consider Yourself Fortunate If You Ever Get Acknowledged. If You Have A Critical Success That's Also A Financial Success And That You Feel Good About... If Things Line Up, That's Pretty Rare.

Editing Rooms Are Kind Of, By Definition, A Bubble Of You And The Editor And What You're Thinking. It's A Truth-telling Thing To Watch It Through Someone Else's Eyes, Is To Get Another Level Of Real With Your Material. Like, "maybe That's Not That Funny. Maybe That's Not As Interesting. Maybe That's Redundant To Something Else. Maybe We Can Cut Down." I Don't Know. It's A Brutal, Honest Process. You've Got To Be Pretty - You Can't Be Sentimental. You Have To Be. It's A Cold Process. You Can't Be Nostalgic. You Have To Make Those Tough Decisions.

No One Is Asking What Happened To All The Homeless. No One Cares, Because It's Easier To Get On The Subway And Not Be Accosted.

All I've Learned Is That You Need The Studio System Sometimes, If Your Budget Is A Certain Size, And Other Films You Can Do Independently. When I Think Of A Studio, I Generally Think Of Distribution. Since I'm A Director, I Have A Similar Creative Experience On Every Film I Do, Because I Can Control That. But Then It's A Different Film, I Think, As It Reaches The Public, Depending On The Way It's Marketed. I Don't Know. I Haven't Learned Much Of Anything. Sometimes You Need Them, Sometimes You Don't. Sometimes They Want You, Most Of The Time They Don't.

The Big Nut To Crack Is To How To Tell A Story, What’s The Right Way To Tell A Particular Story.