So, we can make a stupid movie with stupid people in it just for fun. I don't know what's going to happen to us. In a way, it's like that question about the writers - do they have a responsibility. The reason why that comes up is because there are just so few of us. Certainly, I think it'll be easier in literature than in film.
Film is about money.
I think moving to New York really toughened up the writing. There's been a sense of a very long struggle and sometimes having to reinvent the wheel over and over again and people still not getting it. So there's a sense of that frustration and the loss of so many people to AIDS, to drugs, to wars. It kind of makes you harden up and gives you an edge. But I also think it's a conscious thing for me to maintain an edge.