I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.
They came and bound me up and I had awful stretch marks. I hated my breasts after that.

