American - Director | May 18, 1949 -
Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.
Terry Zwigoff
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The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads.
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Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques you have to learn, and they don't all work on every actor.
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I gotta tell you, I don't have many close friends, and if I do wind up making friends with somebody, it takes me a long time, usually.
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I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.'
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Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.
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I try to make a film that's very entertaining, very funny, but also gives you something to think about. And the strongest thing I have to offer is my point of view, to get across how I see the world in hopes that it can change the way other people see the world, hopefully for the better.
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