You Can Look At What's Happened To

There Was A Generation Of Kids Who Were Just Kind Of Emulating Distant Heroes And Wearing Peace Symbols, And Parents Who Were Thinking Of Themselves As Liberal And Removed From Barbarity, But It Also Was The Era Of Vietnam. I Very Much Was Influenced - And I Think The Whole Country Was Kind Of In A State Of Shock - For The First Time Seeing The Horror And Cruelty Of War.

You Can Look At What's Happened To America In The Last Years And Say A Lot Of People Were Asleep. A Lot Of People Were Not Staying Awake And Watching What Was Going On And Facing The Pain Of That And Dealing With It.i Don't Care If The Rest Of The Audience Doesn't Think Along Those Lines At All, Because The Audience Is A Huge Spectrum Of People, From People Who Are Introspective To People Who Just Want To Be Scared And Have Fun, And All The Points In Between.

I Have Felt Over The Years A Definite Progression Or Arc From Feeling Guilty About What I Had Done With The First One [film], Because Certainly There Was All That Fundamentalist Guilt That Came Pouring Back In.

The Experience Of Going To A Theater And Seeing A Movie With A Lot Of People Is Still Part Of The Transformational Power Of The Film, And It's Equivalent To The Old Shaman Telling A Story By The Campfire To A Bunch Of People. That Is A Remarkable Thing, If You Scream And Everyone Else In The Audience Screams, You Realize That Your Fears Are Not Just Within Yourself, They're In Other People As Well, And That's Strangely Releasing.

I Don't Want To Rescind American Directors But I Think That European Directors In General, Because Of The Size Of The Nations In Europe Are Exposed To All Different Cultures, They Can Easily Travel From One Distinct Culture To Another In A Matter Of Hours - You Can Drive For Two Weeks Across The United States And You're In The Same Basic Culture - So There Is A Certain Breadth Of Understanding And Sophistication That They Bring To It And Frankly, In Some Cases They Are Less Expensive Than American Directors.