My whole career, only one person has stepped up to back me. All these people say they like your films. They say this and they say that, but no one actually does anything.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.
There certainly is no secret in that there are plenty of people who don't like plenty of my movies. Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that. With each one of my films, I'm exploring one of my own issues and I try to expose myself a little in the film.
I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.
I keep meeting directors that are so irresistible. I only do irresistible films, because I don't need to act to feel myself alive.
In fact, 95% of the people in my films have been nothing less than a pleasure to work with.
People think that I have some idea about how I choose my films. I make sure that I am doing the kind of films that I want to watch. You hear so many stories, and one of them will stand out and connect to you somewhere.
You have these relationships with people that you care about, but I also try to stick to my job as filmmaker and be fair and truthful about what I saw and my experience of the people, hopefully informed by a deep understanding of them.
I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.
I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.
When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.