There's a lot of cool stuff going on in independent film. But obviously, yeah - all the comic-book-franchise stuff is deeply boring. But these comic-book characters are the pagan pantheon of gods in today's contemporary culture. It's so important to so many people.

My office is just overflowing with books about witches and books about 17th-century animal husbandry and agricultural farm tools from the period.

I mean, obviously it's exciting for me to see what 'The Revenant' is doing in the box office. That's very exciting.

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