I know there is also the influence of television and being able to zap away so it is a weightier decision to go into the theater than it used to be. And probably attention spans are not as strong as they used to be, generally speaking.

Sometimes you talk to people who really don't know anything about your work, and what can you say?

I try to make each film a different film.

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

People's vocabulary has expanded.

Say you are doing a portrait and the face is perfectly done, but the rest of it is done in brushstrokes. That is sort of like what might happen in the films.

I do consider the individual things individual, in a way because that is what I do I guess, try to find out what is special about each medium.