It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground.
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.
When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.