Making Films Is Much More Difficult Than

Relationship Films Are Political. If A Woman Is Sitting In A Waiting Room In An Office And A Man Walks In And Sits Down, It's A Political Situation. If He Decides To Smoke, Does He Ask Her Or Does He Just Light Up? If He Lights Up, What Does She Do? It's Politics.

I Make Films, And I Hope That People Come To See Them. If They Don't, I Pay A Big Price. But I Can't Make Decisions Where I Would Change My Own Standards Or My Own Taste In Order To Court The Public In Some Way.

By That I Mean, I Think That It Is True That Politics And Political Heroes Have To Satisfy Our Need To Be Greater Than Mortal In Some Way, And That's Led Them Into Creating Illusions, Sound Bites, Focus Groups That Tell You What To Do.

I Mean, I Don't Know Anything Else That I Would Try To Do, But It's A Very Frustrating Thing To Do, Because You Are Trying To Take What's A Fantasy In Your Head And Make It Live Through The Minds Of 200 People.

There's A Religious Basis To Their [bush And Chaney] Kind Of Conservatism. It's Rooted In A Kind Of Fundamentalism. I'm Afraid Of That. I Don't Like That Idea. I Think All Extremism Is Suspect.