[i Was] Feeling Like I'd Done Something

When I Was A Kid, I Was Taken To Something Called Telenews In Cleveland By My Best Friend's Father. My Own Father Was Gone By The Time I Was 5, I Think, But This Man Would Take Us To Telenews At The End Of World War Ii, And We'd Watch All These Newsreels. I'd Seen Real Stuff. That Kind Of Stuck In My Mind.

I Came To Terms With Living Mostly In A World Of Horror Pictures Or Genre Pictures. I Have Had A Few Chances To Get Outside And Do Something Different, Like Paris, Je T'aime Or Music Of The Heart, But Mostly It's Been My Lot. And To Have Created, With A Few Shocking Films, An Awareness Or A Perception Of Me As Somebody Dangerous And Scary - That Can Be Sold, But Trying To Sell Me For Some Other Kind Of Picture, Like Music Of The Heart, Was Very Difficult.

Dad, Girls Don't Fall Down Every Time They Run.

Last House Offended A Lot Of People. The Results In The Theaters, Even In Boston, Reminded Me A Bit Of Things From When I Was Studying Theater Of The Absurd, And The Rise And The Appearance Of Ionesco Plays, And Things Like That. Thinking, "my God, People Actually Are Getting Into Fistfights. People Are Having Heart Attacks. People Are Actually Trying To Get Into The Projection Booth To Destroy The Print."

I Like To Address The Fears Of My Culture. I Believe It`s Good To Face The Enemy, For The Enemy Is Fear.