I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force.

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