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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

In my early days, I didn't know what a good film or a bad film was, and I was trying to make some money. As it happens I was lucky. I made some good films.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.