Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.
Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

