Death Is A Billion-dollar Business. They Can't

I Was Never A Joiner. I Tried - I Had People I Admired And Liked And Wanted To Hang With, But I Ended Up Starting A Theatre Company And That Took Me Back To Chicago... I Guess I Wasn't A Scenester In The End. Something Must Have Worked Out Right, As I'm Still Here - But I'm Only A Binge Socialite.

I Think That Poe Is So Resonant Because He Represents That Part Of Us That Is In Misery Or Sorrowful Or Wants To Explore The Darkness. He Wrote A Great Story Called 'the Imp Of The Perverse' About The Instinct Towards Self-destruction. Poe Is The Godfather Of Goth Literature And That Whole Movement.

My Point Was That It's Hard To Make Good Films, But I'm Not Under Any Illusion That You Do All The Time.

Did You Know That The Word Person Comes From The Latin Word Persona, Which Means Mask? So Maybe Being Human Means We Invite Spectators To Ponder What Lies Behind. Each Of Us Will Be Composed Of A Variety Of Masks, And If We Can See Behind The Mask, We Would Get A Burst Of Clarity. And If That Flame Was Bright Enough, That's When We Fall In Love.

It's Supposed To Feel Good To Throw A Brick At The Right People. There Is A Long Tradition Of Naming And Ridiculing And Shaming And Calling The Villains What They Are. Usually It Was The Artistocracy Of The Day And Satire Was The Only Way To Speak Truth To Power.