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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.

I watch too much TV.

I think you get less takes on TV than in movies.

All my movies are achingly personal.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

Movies should make people uncomfortable sometimes.

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.