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All I Try To Do Is Create An Atmosphere That Seems Comfortable Enough, That It Removes Tension And Everyone Feels Free. If They Feel Free Then Behaviour Happens, Small Moments Happen And That's What Ultimately Works The Best For Me.

I Worked At A Local Television Station And I Got A Chance To Direct And Do All Those Things - Worked Kiddie Shows, Ranger House Show With The Hand Puppets And Things Like That.

You Don't Always Have To Have The Ending, But You Want To Have A Satisfactory Conclusion.

I'm Emotionally Invested In Every Movie That I Do, Period, Because You've Got To Make That Commitment. You're Spending A Year, 18 Months Of Your Life Doing It. I'm Invested In All Those Kinds Of Pieces. Most Of The Films I've Had In My Career Have Never Tested Well. I Got Lucky That Sometimes I Got Supported By Studios - Or, At Least If Not Supported, Tolerated.

Rain Man Certainly Didn't Test Really Well. If You Look At It Carefully, You Have A Disease Autism They Didn't Understand Back Then, They Didn't Know In The Test Audience Whether It's Okay To Laugh Or Not Laugh, Because It's A Film That's Done In A Way Where, "well, Maybe I'm Not Supposed To Laugh." At The End Of The Film, Dustin Hoffman Gets On The Train And Doesn't Even Acknowledge His Brother. Not Even A Glance, Nothing. That's Why The Studio Said, "can't You Just Have Him Look At Tom Cruise At The End Of The Film?"