People Are Worried About The Degree To

In Drama, I Think, The Audience Is A Willing Participant. It's Suspending A Certain Kind Of Disbelief To Try To Get Something Out Of A Story.

As We Say In The Sewer, Time And Tide Wait For No Man.

But At The Same Time, The Film Industry Just Got Torched. The Risk Tolerance For The Types Of Movies We're Talking About Is Lower, And The Reason For That Is That The Captains Of The Industry Were Asleep At The Switch When Their Core Business Was Being Disrupted. And They're Never Getting It Back. In A Way, It Makes It All The More Exciting When The Good Ones Get Through.

I Don't Smoke And I Don't Want To Smoke. I Am Not A Fan Of Gratuitous Smoking In Films.

When I Think Of My Background, If I Was Privileged On Any Level, It Was In Terms Of The Kind Of Exposure To Experience And Bohe-mian Cultural Influence That My Parents And My Uncles And My Grandfather Gave Me. On Both Sides I Come From An Extremely Eccentric, Artsy, Intellectually Intense, Activist Family.