I Like Marginal Characters, I Like Real

Now In The States If You Look At The Tv, You See The Advertisements, The Tv Programmes, The Pop Videos, And The Movies, They're All The Same Style. I Think It's Very Condescending To The Audience To Assume They Only Have A Three Second Attention Span And So They Don't Leave Anything On The Screen For Any Longer. I Don't Understand That.

As Soon As You Start Making A Film That's Expensive Then The Studio Wants Total Control Over All Elements Of It Because They Want To Get All Their Money Back. If You Make A Smaller Film You Can Try A Lot More Things Because You Can Have Control Over It And Not Just Be A Hired Director. The Lower The Budget The More Freedom You Have.

To Me, Everything Is Endless Variations On Other Things. Like Waves In The Ocean. They Continue To Turn Over On Each Other, And They're All Slightly Different. I Don't Know If Originality Is Possible. Is It Even Necessary? Because Everything Is Different Than What Came Before, But It's All Branches From The Same Tree. Originality Is Overrated, But What You Do With Things Is Always Different.

It Meant A Kind Of Real Liberation Of Expression. It Embraced Amateurism In A Way That I Still Am Inspired By. It Was Not About Trying To Get, You Know, Stadium Gigs Or Even Commercial Radio Play Or Even Record Deals For That Matter. It Was About Saying Something 'cause You Meant It, And Expressing Something That You Felt. And That Was Primary For That - Whatever The Scene, Whatever Punk Rock Means, It Was Very, Very Important To Me, Very Formative.

I'm Not An Analytical Person, So It's Not My Job To Even Know What The Hell The Thing Meant. It's Not My Problem. I'm Just Supposed To Do It. Sometimes, People Have Explained Things To Me That I Might Have Been Semi-conscious Of Or Not.