You Always Have To Be Ahead Of

All I Mean Is, I'm Not The Kind Of Audience Comedy Directors Want At A Test Screening Because I Seldom Laugh, And If I Do, It's Not Very Loud. That Doesn't Mean I Don't Like The Movie.

People Call You "director," But It Really Should Be "economic Manager." Because Everything Is "well, We Can Do Another Take Here, But Then You're Gonna Lose That Shot Over There." Or "the Sun's Going Down, Sorry, You're Outta Luck. We Can't Afford To." You Know? And Meanwhile, How Do You Get The Performer's Performance? I'm Thinking The Whole Time All About "how Can I Get My Day Done?" And My Performances Are Primarily A Result Of Casting The Right People At The Right Time In The Right Parts. And Then I Do Little Modifications.

That Said, Be Mindful, To Someone Who's Never Seen Any Of My Work, It's Just A Movie With Actors. So It's Only Those Who Of Course Know The Earlier Work That Will See Something Is Afoot, So To Speak. But I Don't Want To Intellectualize.

As Mark Weiner Puts It, Whether You Gain 50 Pounds Or Lose 50 Pounds, Whether You Have A Sex Change Operation For That Matter, That It Doesn't Matter, That There Is Some Part Of Ourselves That We Cannot Escape.

Storytelling Is The Only Studio Movie Where The Censorship Is Perfectly Clear, The Only Studio Movie With A Big Red Box Covering Up A Shot. I Take Pride In That - And, Of Course, In Having Avoided The Fate Of Eyes Wide Shut.