Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch.

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.