There`s good laughter and bad laughter. As long as they`re not laughing at the expense of any of these characters, it`s OK. My films are comedies, but they`re sad comedies and this is the saddest of all.
In American films, this period of life is not treated seriously. You have either the cute and cuddly Disney kid or the evil devil monster. For me it`s fertile territory - middle class kids growing up in the suburbs.
(On his movie "Happiness"): "It`s not for everyone and it`s not designed for everyone and I don`t think I`ll ever write anything that`s designed to appeal to everyone. If you want sympathetic characters it`s easy enough to do, you just give someone cancer...
Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can`t celebrate humanity but I`m not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.
I don`t have children but if I did and my child wanted to act, I`d be fine with him acting in my movie where I feel a certain dignity is accorded. But I would never let my child act in a commercial for the Gap or Banana Republic or for some other consumer...
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There`s good laughter and bad laughter. As long as they`re not laughing at the expense of any of these characters, it`s OK. My films are comedies, but they`re sad comedies and this is the saddest of all.
