Like Everything, What Compels One To Put

I Mean, There Are Many Other Directors Who Are Probably Both More Skilled And Excited To Adapt Novels Or Work Within Certain Genre Conventions. I'd Like To Do That Kind Of Work Someday, But For Better Or Worse I'm Too Drawn By My Own Material.

I Think, In Fact, There's A Plus And A Minus To Knowing My Prior Work, Happiness And So Forth. The Plus Is Of Course You Can See How I Play With The Characters, The Storylines, And The Way Things Play Off Each Other. And The Minus Is That It Makes You A Little Bit More Self-conscious, That You're Not Able To Enter The Movie As It Exists And Lives And Breathes, Because You're So Busy Making References, Connections That You're Not Able To Release Yourself From And Take The Film On Your Own Terms.

I Can't Please Everybody And I Don't Try To. If I Can Please Myself That's Enough. For The Rest, I Just Hope For The Best.

So Much Of What A Pet Is About For Us Is That It Becomes A Vessel For Yearnings, Dreams, Illusions, Hopes And So Forth. It's A Projection Of The Ultimate Innocence And Purity. That's Why It's Hard To See A Dog In Its Dogness. That's Why, When Some Harm Comes To A Dog, It's Much Harder For An Audience To Deal With That, More So Than Dealing With Harm That Comes To A Child Or Anything Human.

Compromise Is Part And Parcel Of Making A Movie. It's A Question Of The Kinds Of Compromises That You Have To Make.