I Think Success Is A Lot More

So Much Of What A Pet Is About For Us Is That It Becomes A Vessel For Yearnings, Dreams, Illusions, Hopes And So Forth. It's A Projection Of The Ultimate Innocence And Purity. That's Why It's Hard To See A Dog In Its Dogness. That's Why, When Some Harm Comes To A Dog, It's Much Harder For An Audience To Deal With That, More So Than Dealing With Harm That Comes To A Child Or Anything Human.

We Say We Embrace Humanity, But What Does That Mean? We Are All Defined By Our Limits, So To What Extent Can We Embrace All This? Because We All Contain Within Ourselves Equally The Capacity For Kindness, As Much As For Cruelty Or Evil. And The Best Of Us Are Able To Suppress Those Baser Impulses, Instincts. That's The War Within.

I Don't Make Movies With The Idea That People Are Going To Walk Out Of Them Feeling Comfortable Or Better About Themselves Or More Secure In Their Own Biases Or Opinions.

That Said, Be Mindful, To Someone Who's Never Seen Any Of My Work, It's Just A Movie With Actors. So It's Only Those Who Of Course Know The Earlier Work That Will See Something Is Afoot, So To Speak. But I Don't Want To Intellectualize.

The Ability To Take Pleasure In One's Life Is A Skill And Is A Kind Of Intelligence. So Intelligence Is A Hard Thing To Evaluate And It Manifests Itself In So Many Different Ways. I Do Think The Ability To Know How To Live A Life And Not Be Miserable Is A Sign Of That.