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I Always Make Mistakes And I Always Fix Things Up, As Best I Can, In The Cutting Room.

The Ability To Take Pleasure In One's Life Is A Skill And Is A Kind Of Intelligence. So Intelligence Is A Hard Thing To Evaluate And It Manifests Itself In So Many Different Ways. I Do Think The Ability To Know How To Live A Life And Not Be Miserable Is A Sign Of That.

Some People See Me As Dissecting My Characters In Some Kind Of Heartless, Coldblooded, Analytical Way, When In Truth Making These Movies Is A Passionate, Intensely Emotional Experience For Me. I'm Detached From The Characters Only To The Degree That I Have To Be In Order To Write Honestly About Them.

All I Mean Is, I'm Not The Kind Of Audience Comedy Directors Want At A Test Screening Because I Seldom Laugh, And If I Do, It's Not Very Loud. That Doesn't Mean I Don't Like The Movie.

What's Most Insidious About Mtv Is That It Commodifies Precisely Those Things That Young People Believe Are Subversive. In Other Words, Subversity Itself Has Become A Commodity. It's All A Way To Trick Young People Into Believing That There's Something Unique About What They Do, But This Is All Completely A Corporately Designed Maneuver.