When I Want To Show The Kind

I Admit There’s An Element Of Brutality In All My Work - It’s Part Of The Truth About Human Existence I Always Want To Explore - But The Last Thing I’m Trying To Do Is Put On Some Kind Of Freak Show, Inviting People To Get Off On Other People’s Pain And Humiliation.

Casting Is Great Fun, Except For The Business Of It. I Love The Casting Process. I Love The Editing Process. I Love Working With The Music. And Even Prep Is Very Exciting. But Once You Get There And The Clock Is Ticking, All It Is Is Stress.

I Think There Are Many Advantages To Not Knowing Any Of My Prior Work. The Narrative Threads, I Think, Are Totally Accessible To Anyone Who May Never Have Heard Of Me. There's A Beginning, A Middle, And An End - I Don't Think There's Going To Be Any Confusion There.

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.

So Far, At Least, I Haven't Found A Way To Tell My Kind Of Stories Without Making Them Both Sad And Funny.