You know what's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist; when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist, when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.
I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.
Since I came at 'Godot' from a God-based frame of mind, it didn't strike me as absurdist. It struck me as characters waiting for proof of God's existence.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
I'm free-spirited, and it gets me into trouble.
What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy.
All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.
God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.
I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.