I cannot stand Hollywood child performances. It just reeks of artifice, and it's weird that, for some reason, Hollywood feels they have to make their child characters smarter than adults, and suddenly kids have the vocabulary of a college grad.
The me you see on stage is largely a construct, based on me at my worst, my most annoying, my most petty, and my most patronizing.
That's how diversity becomes a gimmick or device, when it is introduced but not supported.
I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the audience won't understand it;" "let's not make the girls wear corsets, because it's not sexy" and all that sort of thing. Gradually it disintegrates into a no man's land: you don't really believe it's a period scene and it doesn't feel like it's now because it's not now. You don't feel it's quite real and you don't believe in it.
What I'm resistant to is the 'Walk the Line' biopic, where you have this redemptive life done in two hours. It just doesn't wash with me. I've been there and things don't work out that way.
For five albums, I would create an image of someone that wasn't true to who they were. I'd be in love with an idea. It's not an uncommon problem.
Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.
'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past.
When you watch stuff that is YA, it looks like it's been made YA. It doesn't look real.
I have always felt that promoting somebody else's mistake as a superlative product is not my cup of tea.
