If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well.

And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.

Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.