I Don't Smoke And I Don't Want

The Film Industry Needs To Confront The Physical Footprint Of The Way Films Get Made.

See, I Don't Get The Sense That You Need To Direct At All. Sometimes I Get The Opposite Sensation From You, That You're Like, "i Really Should Go Do Something Else." But Then You Are Drawn Back In By A Particular Story, Like A Hangnail In The Brain.

I'm An Actor, And, Beyond That, The Thing I Do Most Compulsively Is Writing. So I Come At It Very Much From This Sense Of Character. I Get Interested In People. And I Feel Confident In My Capacity To Absorb And Manifest The Characteristics Of People. I Have A Real Auditory Hang-up For Dialogue; Re-creating The Way People Talk Really Is An Addiction In My Brain.

When I Look At The Directors That I Really Love, Who Really Develop Their Films Over Time, They're Almost Always The Ones Who Go Back Again And Again And Again At The Same Investigations. I Think That When Somebody Has A Theme They Go After, It's Fun To Service That. It's Like, "i Know You Now. I Know What You Go At." It Helps You Locate Yourself A Little Bit Quicker In Their World.

If Nick Broomfield Never Found Anyone With Affection For Courtney Love, It's Only Because He Conspicuously Avoided The Countless Friends, Colleagues And Fans Who Appreciate Her Talent And Admire Her As A Person. But Then, Why Would Broomfield Have Opened Up His Film To Those Of Us Who Work With Courtney And Are Close To Her When There Are So Many Bitter Left - Behinds And Desperate Attention - Seekers Eager To Validate His Attack On Her Character? Inquisitors In Every Age, Scared Of Forceful Women, Have Used All Kinds Of Half - Baked Testimony To Whip Up Chants Of 'burn The Witch!'