Well, Actually, I Did Start Out In

I'm Not Sure I Agree With The Thesis, Because I Think That Even Though Something Grotesque Or Gross Has Been Part Of Film Since Way Back, What We Accept Or What We Can Get Away With On The Screen Is Broader Now.

I Think Junior Is Certainly A Science Fiction Premise As Is Twins, As Is Dave, Beyond Ghostbusters.

I Call It Like The Domino Theory Of Reality. If You Can Go One Step At A Time And It Seems To Make Sense, You Can Then Take Your Audience Into An Area That Is Relatively Outlandish.

There's Been An Amazing Backlash For The Last Decade In America: Political Correctness. In Many Ways, I Think That, While We've Been Remarkably Violent In Our Media, There's Been A Real Schizophrenia. In Private, On The Internet, And On Public-affairs Shows Or Talk Radio, We're Way More Explicit Than We've Ever Been. But Traditional Hollywood Has Been Much More Frightened Than It Ever Was In The '70s About Presenting Things That Could Be Perceived As Politically Incorrect.

I Remember When First, Stripes, And Then Animal House Came Out - Which I Was Really Proud Of, Even Though It Was Kind Of Loose And Quite Raucous - There Were Imitative Movies That Were Not Quite As Good.