To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye.
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Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine.
Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.
It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.
The irony is of course that my career has lasted a whole lot longer than some of the people I've parodied over the years.
I definitely lived my life like I wasn't in the public eye.
A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.
I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
I just really don't like being the center of attention that much. It's kind of ironic.
Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it's a stressful environment... You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, 'What am I doing here? I'm just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.'
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