A Film Needs More Than You Can

Critical Opinion On My Films Has Always Been Salvaged By What I Would Call Subsequent Critical Opinion.

What Do You Take Me For? A Fourteen Karat Sucker?

I Used And Abused Drugs And Alcohol. When I Stopped Doing That It Became A Lot Clearer That Life Goes From Inside To Giving As Opposed To Taking And Destroying.

You're Free To Speculate As You Wish About The Philosophical And Allegorical Meaning Of The Film—and Such Speculation Is One Indication That It Has Succeeded In Gripping The Audience At A Deep Level—but I Don't Want To Spell Out A Verbal Road Map For 2001 That Every Viewer Will Feel Obligated To Pursue Or Else Fear He's Missed The Point.

Private Joker Is Silly And He's Ignorant But He's Got Guts And Guts Is Enough.