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Domestic Violence And Violence Against Women In General Seems To Be A Big Problem Everywhere In The World. It Seems To Me This Problem Comes From Stress, Pent Up Anger, Frustration, And All Kinds Of Negativity Within Human Beings.

Making A Film Is A Beautiful Mystery. You Go Deep Into The Wood, And You Don't Want To Come Out Of That Wood.

Stories Always Have Held Conflicts And Contrasts, Highs And Lows, Life And Death Situations. And There Can Be Much Suffering In Stories, But Now We Say The Artist Doesn’t Have To Suffer To Show Suffering. You Just Have To Understand The Human Condition, Understand The Suffering.

Anger, Stress, Tension, Depression, Sorrow, Hate, Fear - These Things Start To Retreat. And For A Filmmaker, Having This Negativity Lift Away Is Money In The Bank. When You're Suffering You Can't Create.

My Childhood Was Elegant Homes, Tree Lined Streets, The Milkman, Building Backyard Forts, Droning Airplanes, Blue Skies, Picket Fences, Green Grass, Cherry Trees. Middle America As It’s Supposed To Be. But On The Cherry Tree There’s This Pitch Oozing Out – Some Black, Some Yellow – And Millions Of Red Ants Crawling All Over It. I Discovered That If One Looks A Little Closer At This Beautiful World, There Are Always Red Ants Underneath.